Word: dangerously
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swine flu •danger to humans of turns out to be far less than danger to pigs...
...weeds - they want the sun, water, soil and air too. As this winter of our country's discontent melts into planting season, our government would do well to take this lesson from the garden. Especially as it applies to medicine. The doctor is a surprisingly fragile plant, in real danger of being strangled by a number of aggressive species. Here is a short field guide to their identification...
...Resendes heard sounds for the first time when he was nine years old. At that age, he received double cochlear implants, which nearly completely reversed the deafness with which he was born. The danger of injury kept him from participating in any contact sports—he’s picked up squash for the first time at Harvard—but he needed to find a way to have them in his life. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
While Professor Jennifer L. Roberts works with artifacts hundreds of years old, she’s in no danger of gathering moss herself. As the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, specializing in American art from the colonial age to modernism, she constantly strives to enliven her subject, locating art objects in vibrant contexts. “It’s important for students to understand that art objects are very dense objects, just as dense as a novel or scientific treatise,” says Roberts. “These are real historical documents...
...danger is that he will be forced to use his political capital on this rather than the economy, health care, cap and trade, education, immigration, etc," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Presidential and Congressional Studies. "It sets yet another agenda item for him in a very crowded list of priorities...