Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against anti-Semitism to be complicit in the preservation of the persecution. This should also be the case for gay rights: it is not a matter of "comfort" but of mutual respect and protection. If we allow the "abnormal" to be marginalized and criminalized, then we are all in danger of being defined out of the mainstream. The majority has a great deal of authority in this country, for good reasons, but it is implicit in our Constitution that the authority of the majority cannot cancel out the right of the individual to their private consciences and values...
...lavender, lace-trimmed slip dresses, spaghetti-strap tops and diaphanous minis. McCartney's clothes bespeak a mature knowledge of flirtation. "We've done the feminist thing and beaten men down, and now we want to lure them back," McCartney, a tall, cheerful redhead, explains. "I think there's a danger in being too girly though...
...threat of the spectacle of an old woman humiliating herself is not the most severe danger confronting patrons of the Duck. While I was waiting to meet Melissa, a group of men in sunglasses and leather jackets brusquely walked into the bar. I later found out that they had been in a vicious barfight with the bouncers a few weekends before, and were now meeting to see what would be done about...
Most of us don't even realize the danger. We spend our evenings crouched on straight-backed chairs, shifting and twisting for some modicum of comfort, staring blearily at oddly-angled monitors and typing furiously on stress-enhancing keyboards. Our "breaks" from work too often consist of checking e-mail, surfing the Web or playing a quick round of solitaire or Quake. We ignore any fatigue or arm pain in favor of working late into the night to finish that last paper or problem...
...authorities wrestle with how best to remove and treat the poisons before they reach the danger level, some residents are promoting a new twist on their old livelihood: mining the Berkeley lake. There is growing talk by both local residents and officialdom (scientists and bureaucrats) of seeking to extract perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow...