Word: harm
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...Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, critic Elaine Showalter exposes the enormous harm done by the recovered-memory syndrome as it was applied to everything from multiple personalities to intrafamilial sex-abuse cases, in which abuses "remembered" never occurred. Showalter also notes that hysterias tend to produce scapegoats, which was borne out by the Princess Diana paparazzi hunt. As gratifying as it may have been for people to find a target of blame, most journalists recognize that the difference between the paparazzi and legitimate news photographers is roughly...
...fighter, U-2 missions and the U.S. aircraft carrier groups assigned to the Middle East, but what about the squadrons of A-10 Warthogs stationed in Kuwait, only 50 miles from the Iraqi border? We have been patrolling the skies over the no-fly zone in southern Iraq--in harm's way--every day, faithfully, since late 1994. I suppose it's much more glamorous to interview the flight crews on a carrier [WORLD, Nov. 24], but the real story lies with the airmen and ground crews who spend a good portion of their service in remote desert locations. CAPTAIN...
...Grenzke '98, who is the other head TF for CS 50, acknowledged that assignment eight was time-consuming, he said he believed it was possible to spread out the work enough so that students did not harm themselves...
...think it's certainly doable to spread it out so you don't do yourself harm," he said...
...justices of the state's supreme court--a majority--supported Condon's assertion. The court thus became the first in the U.S. to rule that a viable fetus could be considered "a person" under child-abuse laws and that a pregnant woman carrying it could be charged with doing harm, even with murder. Similar arguments were earlier rejected by five other state supreme courts and a handful of lower courts across the country, but that did not deter Condon, a Republican rising star whose career has been stoked by such battles. Says he: "This decision is much more in line...