Word: harmfulness
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...Beirut widely attributed to a precursor of Hizballah. "The sense of déjà vu is overpowering," says François Heisbourg, a security expert who was a chief adviser to the Defense Minister at the time. "I hope the government doesn't put our troops in harm's way without a clear commitment that Hizballah is disarmed." The French position underlines an obvious truth: like most diplomatic compromises, Security Council Resolution 1701 is a necessarily ambiguous document. It was agreed only with the approval of the Israeli and Lebanese governments, and the U.N. force serves at the invitation...
...Richard Shim, a PC industry analyst at IDC, says that the recall itself could be Dell's voluntary response to a well-publicized laptop fire that occurred earlier this summer at a business meeting in Osaka, Japan. Shim says that Dell, hit by bad publicity that could harm consumer sales, took this opportunity to reach out to its customers. "It's part of a long-term strategy to build back the trust of consumers," he says...
...answer, say security experts, highlights the need for a security system based on sophisticated profiling: It may be more important for the security system to be geared towards detecting passengers with intent to do harm rather than relying on detecting the specific means they've chosen. Boston's Logan Airport is currently testing a version of profiling called the SPOT program, but it avoids the ethnic profiling that many security experts say, despite its objectionable political connotations, would have to be the focus of an effective system...
...same continent at the same time - she works in Singapore, and I shuttle between Baghdad and New York City. Somehow, the distance feels greater when I'm in Iraq. If it's difficult for me, it's doubly so for her, knowing that I'm constantly in harm's way. Bipasha jokes that her coping mechanism is a voodoo doll bearing a remarkable likeness to my boss, which she pokes with a needle whenever she gets too anxious. (Howard: you know those stabbing pains you sometimes get? Well, that's where it comes from...
...these parts, some smaller communities have banned alcohol with varying success. But few people think that would work in Borroloola. For now, the aim is harm minimization. Since a general community meeting last March, the town has been trying to prepare an alcohol management plan. Money from the N.T. government has yet to reach the local council to pay the consultants needed to draw up a scheme; the demand for such social services in the Territory is so great that Borroloola is just another community in the queue. The Territory's Darwin-based head of Racing, Gaming and Licensing, Elizabeth...