Word: harmful
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...wasn't easy. "One challenge facing anyone who wants to estimate the effects of candidates' tax plans is that no one - not even inside the campaigns - knows exactly what the proposals are," reads an early conclusion of the resulting report. "In a sense, we have done them some harm here by saying we want to pin you down on what you mean," Williams explains...
...Testing for HIV "is more than just drawing the blood or taking the swab," says Carmen Davila, community education director at CitiWide Harm Reduction, a needle-exchange facility in the Bronx where about 80% of patients are HIV-positive. "You also need to rub someone's back and talk to them. When I do testing, it's like a therapy session." Davila and others at CitiWide worry the initiative's approach ignores important parts of the treatment process - including pre- and post-test counseling - and reduces the delicate, often traumatic process of coping with a diagnosis to the emotional equivalent...
...others say those barriers are there for a reason: they ensure that counseling, testing and treatment are comprehensive and humane. "I'm absolutely on board with testing," he says. "But I have real questions about how this is going to work." Adds Carolina Lopez, executive director of New York Harm Reduction Educators: "The whole point of testing is prevention and the counseling piece is what provides people with the tools...
...sense that paradise has been ruined by awful traffic, overcrowded schools, overtapped aquifers and polluted beaches. The land of Disney dreams for the middle class is now a high-cost, low-wage state with Mickey Mouse schools and Goofy insurance rates, living beyond its environmental and economic means in harm's way. As peculiar as it sounds, this go-for-broke state of boundless possibilities - the land of Kimbo Slice, Miami Vice and Mar-a-Lago - might be leading America into a new era of limits...
...process of being canonized by the Catholic Church. But inclusion of the santos malandros has raised controversy among devotees of espiritismo (also known as santeros). That's because they are regarded as spirits with a "low light," who, in order to gain redemption in death, must undo the harm they did in life...