Word: harmfulness
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...from the steps of Widener Library to an administrative building where University officials are discussing investments in Africa. A humanitarian crisis is occurring on the continent, and a group that advises the Harvard Corporation must decide whether divesting from corporations with ties to repressive governments in Africa does more harm than good. The students hope to convince Harvard that divestiture is the only moral option...
...those immigrants who come here legally." The Senator also went to unusual lengths to sympathetically portray the yearning for a better life among immigrants. In emotional terms he described the deaths suffered by those attempting to cross "the trackless deserts of Arizona, people who broke our laws, not to harm us, but to possess for themselves the ideals and opportunities cherished here...
...freezing cells is a routine and well understood process. So far, she says, there is no evidence that frozen stem cell lines are any less active or viable when thawed - but scientists don't yet have a lot of experience in manipulating and storing human stem cells. The most harmful part of the process, says Krtolica, is the freezing itself; "the freezing process has the biggest harm in killing cells," she says. "The number of cells you freeze is not the number of cells you recover. However, the cells that survive the freezing process don't carry any genetic change...
...During a lawn party Laura and Carlos arrange for handicapped children, Simon disappears. After six months' searching, he is presumed kidnapped or dead - by everyone but Laura. She has begun to feel palpitations in the old house, hints of other, unquiet spirits. They may mean her harm, if they exist. But Laura, seized by sorrow, believes the voices are speaking to her - that they may have risen from her past to help her find Simon...
However, I firmly believe that I am first and foremost a physician borne into medicine with the charges to cure disease (when possible) and to do no harm to my patients. I am not, nor will I ever be a spiritual advisor or religious sage during an existential crisis. And it seems likely that no lecture or course at the medical school could ever teach me to be that person for my patients. Does this make my contribution to patient care less meaningful or in any way less effective? Maybe for some patients; though most will find spiritual comfort...