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  • Experts say we have an itchy security trigger because the species had to be hyper-alert to survive back in our sketchier days on the African savanna.

    Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry Joe Robinson 2010

  • Experts say we have an itchy security trigger because the species had to be hyper-alert to survive back in our sketchier days on the African savanna.

    Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry Joe Robinson 2010

  • Experts say we have an itchy security trigger because the species had to be hyper-alert to survive back in our sketchier days on the African savanna.

    Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry Joe Robinson 2010

  • I was already hyper-alert and too wired to do yoga, but meditation might help.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • I shuffled through the melee on the streets, hunched over, dirty burka dragging through the rubble, my head covered, but my eyes hyper-alert.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • I shuffled through the melee on the streets, hunched over, dirty burka dragging through the rubble, my head covered, but my eyes hyper-alert.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • We are hyper-alert to offenses we might give others, and refuse the capacity to take any ourselves.

    Language and that “controversial” Arizona immigration law 2010

  • I was already hyper-alert and too wired to do yoga, but meditation might help.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • Suddenly, it seemed, he had become hyper-alert to nearly everything he said and did.

    Unprecedented weirdness 2009

  • Older richer men either already have a family Sunil or are hyper-alert for 'gold-diggers'.

    Telly Ho juliette 2009

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