Word: harmful
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...don’t know about that, no... I think that technology really does have the power to do a lot of harm or a lot of good; the hot can be just as hot, the cold can be just as cool. In the ‘80s they had the luxury of writing about computers as metaphors. Today you have to be pretty memetic and rigorous about your computers; a substantial fraction of your audience will call you on it if you have cyberspace decks that are capable of shredding your brain because no one’s thought...
American women have served in every U.S. military conflict since the Revolution, usually as nurses or spies, but the country has never been comfortable with sending them into harm's way. Congress bars women from engaging in offensive warfare with the enemy. In response to dwindling military-recruiting numbers and demands by women's groups for more equality between the sexes, the Pentagon in 1994 loosened the ban and allowed women to take on "supporting" combat roles. In Iraq, that can involve anything from piloting combat helicopters to accompanying infantrymen and Marines on house-to-house raids and searching Iraqi...
...story on how Burma's oppressive generals are supported by investments from other Asian countries drew reaction from readers who warned that economic sanctions do more harm than good...
...after decades at the heights of power helping to mount and administer great battles that caused many thousands of deaths and injuries, the aging leader set out one afternoon into the fields of his beloved homeland in pursuit of a bird that meant no harm to him and which showed him at last - unintentionally, in a twinkling, and in a way that forever changed his heart and, over time, the hearts of all our leaders - what it was actually like to shoot...
...that release, the study’s co-author, nutritional scientist Daniel J. Hoffman, warned that weight-gain could lead to diminished self-esteem, which in turn may harm academic performance...