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...that people have tried everything from olive oil to $1,200 treatments to no avail. Pollack believes that the real danger of head lice rests in people’s hysterical responses. Lice are actually innocuous, according to Pollack, and extensive use of insecticide treatments may actually cause greater harm to children...
Alfie’s realization of the irrevocable harm his actions cause shocks him into change. A very human, very real distress replaces Alfie’s godlike composure, and his brushes with death transform him from a young man with all the answers to a suddenly aged, more uncertain person. In the greatest irony, his newfound gravitas leads to him being dumped by an older woman for a younger...
...Israeli professors, working to improve the severe political imbalance of the department will benefit everyone. To be fair, we do not advocate a lowering of standards for the sake of a token pro-Israeli seat either, but having a greater diversity of political viewpoints in this area does no harm. It only enriches intellectual discourse for all involved...
Mark says that for a sadomasochist, there is a difference between harm and hurt. Harm he tries to avoid at all costs; hurt, however, is good. “Pain and pleasure are not polar opposites to us. There’s painful pleasure; there’s pleasurable pain,” Mark says. “Pain to us is simply sensation that is very intense. Because it’s so intense, like a bright light, people normally might shy away from it. But people who enjoy that intensity will go towards...
...divestment in their annual report last year, Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility noted, among other reasons, “the desire not to be associated as a shareholder with companies engaged in significant sales of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to human health...