Word: benignity
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Powell says that sexual orientation is not a "benign characteristic," whereas skin color is "benign." This is patently offensive. His bigoted views about sexuality are not more important than his remarkable record of achievement; the two issues are separate, at least...
...Daniel B. Kopans, associate professor of radiology at the Medical School, argues that the disadvantage to early screening is the cost of biopsies on benign growths...
...also the swan song of its curator, Michel Laclotte, soon to retire as president and director of the Louvre. Like some benign capo, he has called in all his markers at once in a virtuoso display of accumulated borrowing power. His contributing art historians, from Alessandro Ballarin to Konrad Oberhuber, provide clear and scholarly catalog essays; no serious French catalog would dream of using the jargon so popular now in American academe...
...space not only uses 61% less energy and 68% less electricity than it did before the renovation -- saving an estimated $100,000 a year, but it also recycles 80% of all office waste, including 42 tons of paper annually; cools its air without ozone-depleting CFCs; and employs environmentally benign and recycled construction materials throughout -- not to mention the 300 tons of steel, 9,000 tons of masonry and 560 tons of concrete that Audubon preserved by reusing the original structure...
Hysterectomies are often necessary when a woman has a precancerous or a cancerous uterus. But, according to the study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the operation is not mandatory for a variety of other benign conditions such as abnormal uterine growths, known as fibroids, or excessive uterine bleeding...