In the morning you'd do this thing called topography, going 'round the local area, fitting fire alarms, looking at big risk sites, stuff like that.
When I got halfway down the block, I noticed alarmed looks from passers-by.
I'm never leaving!" The boy, alarmed, looked toward his sister, who slit her eyes in my general direction.
As with Siri on the iPhone, you can command the phone to dial a number, send a text, open an app, set your alarm, look up a fact on the Web, and so on.
In retrospect, that alarm looks premature.
But in two of those cases, it was very close, a very close call; the alarm looked very realistic.
And instead of shooting judgy, alarmed looks at all the surfaces of your home stacked high with papers, diapers, unfolded laundry, used burp cloths and gifts you hope to exchange before your kid is in preschool, visitors might voluntarily help you straighten up. 4.
I reached for the alarm without looking and threw it across the room.
"It's definitely alarming to look at those statistics," she said.
His horned monsters, alarming to look at but gentle in character, seem distantly related to Maurice Sendak's wild things.The best animal picture book of the season is "Lord of the Forest" (Frances Lincoln, $16.95 and £10.99) by Caroline Pitcher and Jackie Morris.
