Word: harmful
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...there is the grave risk that science will contribute to profits, excluding truth in favor of a more attractive approximation. This is not to say that ties to industry doom scientific endeavors to the service of economic interests or that Summers’ plans for Allston will harm biotechnology at Harvard. But the associations to be forged in this great expansion will require concrete structures of academic oversight, which the administration must create alongside the new facilities and research groups. Let’s stay on the synergy side of the coin...
...don’t know why they are concerned,” Kidd said. “We feel confident that there will be no harm to student activities and that everybody will be well supported. That is why we reinvented the entire position: to provide a better level of support...
...technique is to force-feed ducks with cornmeal through a tube put down their throats several times a day, causing their livers to enlarge. Guillermo Gonzalez, owner of the Stockton foie gras farm, says the procedure doesn't harm the birds, whose livers are enlarged naturally in the wild before they migrate. Counters Sarahjane Blum, a spokeswoman for GourmetCruelty.com "If this were being done to dogs or cats, the producers would without a doubt be in prison for animal cruelty." Anyone for caviar? --By Terry McCarthy
...consent, according to Sukumar Das, president of the Federation of Publishers' and Booksellers' Associations of India. P.M. Sukumar, vice president of sales and marketing at Penguin India, estimates that piracy slashes his company's sales in India by 20%. "If the problem is unchecked," Sukumar says, "it will seriously harm the book industry...
...think the two courts [the district and circuit courts] got it right,” he said. “There has not been enough showing of harm...