Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patients at New York City's highly respected Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center -- did "not indicate the need for any new public health advisory," the group said. For years transfusion recipients have been considered at only a slightly higher risk for AIDS than the population at large, but the danger is substantially greater among hemophiliacs and some leukemia patients who regularly require massive transfusions. Says Dr. Donald Armstrong, one of the authors of the Sloan- Kettering study: "We just documented something which had been assumed by everybody -- the larger the number of transfusions, the greater the risk...
...powerful irony that for all the differences, the Iran affair smacks of Watergate, in the sense that the abuse of the highest power undoes the king (the highest power manipulated by little knights, stupid and zealous). That one of the most beloved American Presidents should have found himself in danger of recapitulating the fates of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson is American political theater edging toward the Shakespearean...
...never been easy to be a teenager, but in the past three decades adolescence seems to have become even more difficult and often fraught with real danger. Since 1950 the suicide rate has tripled among youths from 15 to 24, spurred by changing social mores, increased drug and alcohol use, and greater access to firearms, which are teenagers' favorite means of killing themselves. Teen suicide is not quite the epidemic it is sometimes portrayed to be: the rate of 12 per 100,000 for young people only recently caught up to that of the general population, and suicide...
...workers finally noted that Pollard was taking classified papers home with him and informed the FBI. During the ensuing interrogation, Pollard phoned his wife and alerted her to what was happening by using the code word "cactus." Anne Henderson-Pollard then warned the Israelis of the impending danger and tried unsuccessfully to dispose of a suitcase full of classified documents. A few days later the Pollards drove to the Israeli-embassy compound, where they apparently hoped to gain refuge and perhaps political asylum. But the Israelis, realizing the Pollards were being followed by the FBI, turned them away...
...Weinberger's project envisions the development of a network of space stations over several years, each armed with several dozen antimissile missiles to destroy Soviet ICBMs in the boost phase of their trajectory. In addition, a network of sensors, reconnaissance and battle-management stations would be created. The purported danger of this system is that it would not be effective against the currently existing number of Soviet missiles, but would be sufficient, after that number is cut, to render the U.S.S.R. unarmed for all practical purposes. It is also possible that offensive nuclear space-to-ground missiles and offensive space...