Word: dangerously
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Birth Control. For reasons that ecologists are unable to explain, the elephants themselves seem to be aware of the danger-and have begun to practice birth control of sorts. At Tsavo, where the elephant population has entered a "cycle of despair," the mating age of young cows has been mysteriously delayed by three years, and the interval between their offspring has nearly doubled from four years to seven. Such natural controls are not enough, however. Game experts agree that the only solution is the final solution-a bullet...
...also pointed out the danger in the Princeton proposal of overconcentration. A student would be able to take 16 courses in his major and use his audited courses to meet distribution requirements and "presumably get a degree in liberal arts," Wilcox said...
...only danger, as the proposal begins its circuitous route to Faculty approval, is that its merits will be obscured by undue concern with the real, but certainly surmountable, problems of cost and administration. If many students should decide to take advantage of a free fifth course, Harvard might have to pay for additional staff and facilities, or turn pass-fail students away from courses already filled with "regular" students...
...punish utterances that obstruct military recruiting or war activities was upheld in Schenck v. U.S. (1919), when the Supreme Court sustained the World War I Espionage Acts. In Schenck, however, Justice Holmes also declared that such utterances can be punished only if they create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." Miller and his lawyers insist that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. They point out that all the information on the card-and much...
...that the dunes will remain primarily a recreation area, including eleven miles of beach front. A House-Senate conference will now mediate the differences. The new park can use all the land it can get; last summer weekenders arrived in such numbers that conservationists feared the dunes were in danger of being trampled down...