The government plans to expand a fully-featured system to provide alerts via television, radio, and "wireless communications" by March 2007, but until then, we suspect the ole "ear to the ground" method is the best you've got.

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He captured my musical heart in college with his 2002 album Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground.

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That isn't the only green car news that broke this week -- with the Geneva Motor Show fast approaching, we've been keeping an ear to the ground for the latest from Switzerland.

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However, if you put your ear to the ground, you will hear these whispers growing louder among pundits.

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Thus, we will be keeping an ear to the ground for any word that inflation is starting to matter to traders.

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As promised, we've been keeping an ear to the ground on Intel's new mobile, dual-core Atom processor, and as luck would have it a number of netbooks are popping up with the new CPU baked in...well, at least in the land down under.

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