Word: benign
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...confident, however, that in the long run President Vladimir Putin's prestige won't suffer in Russian eyes as a result. Russians really like the fact that there's a tough guy running the state. And they don't expect the state to be a benign entity - over the last hundred years, they've come to expect that any situation in which the state's authority is challenged results in a lot of unpleasantness...
...Taliban banned hash production, but in the postwar chaos of lawless fiefdoms that dot the land, growers and traders across the country are finding themselves free once again to cultivate and export hashish without fear, and often with warlord protection. Moreover, the international perception that cannabis is a relatively benign drug?prompting some authorities across Europe and Australia to decriminalize its use?has persuaded drug-policing agencies to largely ignore it. So, while opium cultivation is monitored to the acre, neither Interpol, the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention nor the U.S.'s Drug Enforcement Agency can offer...
...could argue with that? Yet there is a problem with Bush's vision: it will have to be imposed from the outside. To be sure, in the past, American imperialist practice has usually been more benign than Britain's. (The R.A.F. bombed Iraqi villages that were late in paying their taxes, which even the Colonial Office in London thought was a bit much.) And America's ostensible motives today are pure (so long as we don't mention oil). "Liberty for the Iraqi people," said Bush, "is a great moral cause." It doubtless is. But just as beauty...
...female factory workers in Shanghai, China, published Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, show the workers who performed self-exams regularly were no less likely to die from breast cancer than the women who never did the exams. Self-exam practitioners were more likely to detect benign breast anomalies than their peers, but there was no effect on the risk of death...
...Rather than telling women they absolutely must do exams, Dr. Cady believes doctors should concentrate their energies on mammography, which offers a far more sophisticated overview of breast tissue and can sometimes rule out the scary-feeling benign cysts that send so many self-examining women to their doctors' offices in a panic. "Women who do self-exams conscientiously and consistently should continue," he says. "Women who haven't yet started exams, I tell not to bother...