Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speakers noted that the danger of an individual dying in an attack is still relatively slight...
Despite their agreement that the government is unprepared to meet the danger, the speakers were unable to settle on specific precautions that should be taken...
...experienced climber, it was a fight of sheer willpower and a certain degree of obsession which brought climbers to the mountain. For many now, though, the goal is not the experience but the outcome--to be able to say, "I stood at the top of Everest." The danger remains, however. It's true that the process has been streamlined and improved, but the climb remains a kind of fatal tourist attraction without the purity of Mallory's attitude...
...ticklish that they don t even need to be touched to cringe. Even if they don t produce pain on their own, these neural patterns can "lower the stimulus intensity so that normally innocuous stimuli produce pain." In this model, Harvard students, aware of what they see as impending danger of RSI, might jump the gun and anticipate the pain. This would fit what Suleiman described as the almost faddish nature of the disorder, its "trendiness." Students made hyper-aware of the dangers of RSI from a sudden rash of articles in campus publications might therefore be more likely...
...Both Dr. Katz and Dr. Coley are extremely hesitant to suggest that RSIs are not predominantly mechanical, ergonomic phenomena. For Dr. Katz, there is a danger in implying that the disorder is a psychological one. "There is just as much evidence for biological causation as for most other disorders and more than some." As for the seemingly provincial nature of disease, Dr. Coley responds that diseases often refuse to conform to what we would see as rational patterns. "We had 22 cases of whooping cough this year. It was just one of those blips you see as a clinician...