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I don't want to provide any more bureaucratic grapeshot (oops!) to restrict our freedom, but we must remain alert when shopping for food: that Danish pastry sitting next to the Battenburg cake could have been baked by a man wearing Argyll socks with a Windsor knot in his tie.
But NEADS did not know where to send the alert fighter aircraft, and the officer directing the fighters pressed for more information:"I don't know where I'm scrambling these guys to.
In Belize the crushed leaf of Petiveria alliacea is put on the dog's nose to improve its ability to follow a scent [ 109 ] . Kojoroot or Kudjuruk ( Petiveria alliacea ) is considered a charm and a medicine for aches, pain, snakebites and respiratory conditions in Dominica, Bolivia, Columbia, Peru and Eastern Nicaragua [ 16 96 53 108 ] . The plant can stimulate the phagocytosis activity of the reticulo-endothelelial system and has antibacterial effects [ 61 108 ] . The plant contains isoarborinol, isoarborinol-cinnamate and sulphide compounds, which give it a smell of onions or garlic [ 86 50 ] . The strong garlic smell may suggest the various uses of the plant (Doctrine of Signatures), however this aspect was not noted in the meticulous data compiled on Middle America [ 86 ] . It is difficult to assess which medicinal properties of the plant could help in making dogs more alert.
But, another historian observes,"in the face of a clear warning, alert measures bowed " to routine.
There are other, less dramatic, examples; surely David Kaczynski's decision to alert the FBI to his brother's suspicious activities was the right choice.
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