Word: fatalism
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...attitudes toward food: we keep shoving pollutants into the atmosphere with the same abandon that we shove junk food into our mouths, even though we know the results will probably be serious. Why are we not proactive when it comes to the planet? Our negligence could have a fatal impact not only on ourselves, but also on billions of innocents. Matthew Hutchison West Hollywood, California, U.S. Testifying before a U.S. senate sub-committee, Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said, "The increased activity since 1995 is due to natural fluctuations and cycles of hurricane activity...
...organization, petitioned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to list fluoride in tap water as a carcinogen. The group cited "decades of peer-review studies" on fluoride's "ability to mutate DNA and its known deposition on the ends of growing bones, the site of osteosarcoma"--a rare, often fatal cancer that affects mainly boys...
...steps to reduce greenhouse gases. That standard is too high when the world is facing what might be catastrophic consequences. Even the possibility that human behavior is changing our climate should compel action. Why are we not proactive when it comes to the planet? Our negligence could have a fatal impact not only on ourselves but also on billions of innocent people...
Number of cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, among U.S. teens and adults that could be prevented each year with a booster vaccination. Most children, for whom the long-lasting coughing illness can be fatal, get several pertussis shots by age 6, but immunity wears off. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says one extra shot for teens and adults would do the trick...
...their own individual choices depending on the situation. The directive is clearly extremely unfortunate, but it also has legitimate logic behind it. The explicit “NOT” in the policy serves as a legal shield for the University were a non-disabled student to sustain injuries (fatal or otherwise) helping a disabled friend. Were the AEO to encourage students to aid disabled Harvard students, Harvard could be held financially liable in the event of a tragedy. We live in an increasingly litigious age in a fiercely litigious country. It makes no sense to tempt fate (nor jury...