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The jumpiness has even spread to events only tangentially connected to New York, such as a false-alarm bomb scare in Portsmouth, N.H., on a Maine-to-New York bus.

False alarm rattles cautious New York 2010

Since a Pakistani-American tried unsuccessfully to set off a car bomb in the heart of the city last weekend, false-alarm calls are up dramatically, nerves are jangled, and media and law enforcement are rushing to the scenes to make sure the reports aren't something bigger.

False alarm rattles cautious New York 2010

"When I looked at the false-alarm probability, it is very high — sufficiently high that one would never dream of claiming detection of this planet," Dr. Gregory said.

Planet Data to Fuel Hunt for Life Robert Lee Hotz 2011

The trial funded by Vermillion Inc., of Fremont, Calif., which developed the test, found that physicians 'current methods, which generally included another blood test, an exam and imaging, had a false-alarm rate of only 40%.

Test to Help Determine If Ovarian Masses Are Cancer Laura Johannes 2010

The trial funded by Vermillion Inc., of Fremont, Calif., which developed the test, found that physicians 'current methods, which generally included another blood test, an exam and imaging, had a false-alarm rate of only 40%.

Test to Help Determine If Ovarian Masses Are Cancer Laura Johannes 2010

A suspicious brown bag abandoned atop a pay phone near Times Square Tuesday night led to the third false-alarm bomb scare since Faisal Shahzad's botched plot left the city feeling jitters.

Times Square Bomb Scare: Suspicious Brown Bag Triggers False Alarm 2010

The trial funded by Vermillion Inc., of Fremont, Calif., which developed the test, found that physicians 'current methods, which generally included another blood test, an exam and imaging, had a false-alarm rate of only 40%.

Test to Help Determine If Ovarian Masses Are Cancer Laura Johannes 2010

The trial funded by Vermillion Inc., of Fremont, Calif., which developed the test, found that physicians 'current methods, which generally included another blood test, an exam and imaging, had a false-alarm rate of only 40%.

Test to Help Determine If Ovarian Masses Are Cancer Laura Johannes 2010

But people have been imagining the event for some time: the New Yorker posted today a famous passage from John Cheever'sJournals, in which he gets a false-alarm phone call in the middle of the night that Updike has died.

More on Updike: His Own Elegies Omnivoracious 2009

But people have been imagining the event for some time: the New Yorker posted today a famous passage from John Cheever'sJournals, in which he gets a false-alarm phone call in the middle of the night that Updike has died.

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009