Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plus some sleeping pills and tranquilizers. Her local doctor, knowing that she needed help fast, but unsure of the proper antidote, made one telephone call. A brief consultation with an expert on drugs gave the puzzled physician the simple answer. A quick stomach pumping brought the woman out of danger. Three months ago she might have died...
...long run," says Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, "the chief problem that China presents may not be the danger that it will be so rich and strong, as well as hostile, that it menaces our basic interests, but rather that it may fall so short of meeting the economic needs and aspirations of its people that it remains an unstable and sick fifth of humanity." Not until Peking's leaders begin to busy themselves with the task of satisfying those basic needs will China be able to set out on the long road...
...Harvard Independent, a new student weekly paper, is in danger of foundering on a political reef even before it's launching day. Three members of the original nine founders of the paper resigned their positions last week and a fourth is reportedly considering leaving before the first issue appears on October...
Since April, most reform efforts have focused on restructuring the University. These efforts will probably not bear fruit for some time to come. Yet in the meantime, issue of both political and educational nature remain of concern to at least a sizable portion of the student body. The danger of concentrating exclusively on restructuring is that it can allow such substantive questions as the propriety of certain types of research and the correctness of current admissions policies at Harvard to go unconsidered for an indefinite period by many students and Faculty...
...harmful side effects or a habit, and of those who cannot. Just as some drinkers become convivial or aggressive and others morose and withdrawn, drug users get as much of their kick from their surroundings and the set of their own psyches as from the chemicals they use. The danger of heavy dependence, the crucial problem with most pop drugs, also depends largely on the personality of the user...