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...industrial countries, as much as 50% of the population will suffer from a rash or other skin disease during the course of a year, compared with maybe 2% in the 1950s. "Is this an indication that pollutants have weakened human immune defenses, leaving city dwellers more vulnerable to otherwise benign diseases?" the epidemiologist asks. Many of the effects of environmental degradation are far from benign. In Upper Silesia, Poland, indiscriminate dumping of toxic wastes has so poisoned the land and water that 10% of the region's newborns have birth defects, from missing limbs to brain damage...
...immense security threat along the Gaza border. But Hamas clearly has the Israeli government's attention -- a sharp departure from the past, when security officials believed the fundamentalists to be more interested in spiritual matters and social work than political or military struggle. The Israelis treated the movement with benign neglect and hoped that it would erode support for the P.L.O...
...Cambodia is in the midst of the strangest phase of all -- and the only one that could be said to have benign intent. Over the past few months, under the banner of the U.N., the devastated country has been inundated by 20,000 men and women from all over the world, equipped with white cars, white trucks, white planes and white helicopters. They are charged with giving Cambodia something it has never had -- democracy -- along with something it has not known for 22 years -- peace...
...religious faith rather than undermining it. To pull off such a challenging assignment, we chose Robert Wright, a science writer whose column "The Information Age" for The Sciences magazine won the 1986 National Magazine Award for essays and criticism. Wright, now a senior editor at the New Republic, has benign memories of his first experience as a writer for TIME. "The editors were astonishingly tolerant of my stylistic idiosyncrasies," he says. "I had assumed I would be brutalized, but I wasn't." While calling himself "a fairly hard-core scientific materialist," Wright adds, "but I do like to think there...
...inevitably right that Walcott has assumed his rightful place in the literary pantheon. The people of the region cannot, as he suggests, wait for "a broader more benign consideration of the Caribbean." It is they who are responsible for its imaginative redefinition...