Word: harmfulness
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...afternoons stop to buy cold sodas. Although the Green Zone is one of the most protected places in Iraq, the entrance known as Checkpoint 3 is one of the most dangerous. Last summer I and several other TIME staff members were fortunate to be just out of harm's way when a suicide bomber struck a kebab stand near the shops. The blast took the bomber's head clear off his body and sent it rolling down the road to Wisam's feet. He kicked it away dismissively...
...efficiently through their lessons, their practices, their many pools of obligation. Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things...
...putting them in grave danger. "You may not be getting the full value out of every dollar you spend on your test," says Ray Rodriguez, director of the Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics at the University of California, Davis, "but it won't do you any harm - and you might actually start taking your nutrition more seriously." The only question is whether you really want to shell out $1,000, or even $99, for that sort of advice...
...Hizballah while it retains its capacity to fight will be counted by the movement as a major victory - it has, after all, defined victory as simply surviving the Israeli onslaught. Israel and the U.S., by contrast, have defined victory as the elimination of Hizballah's capacity to inflict harm, and it will press for a truce that achieves that goal. Still, the limits of what has been achieved on the battlefield may now begin to set limits on what the U.S. and Israel are able to achieve via diplomacy...
...atom," Witte says. "The physicists on the Manhattan Project knew what they needed to accomplish and how to measure it. In biology, we're codeveloping our measurement tools and our outcome tools at the same time." Indeed, a massive centralized effort controlled by the Federal Government could do more harm than good. The key is to have the broadest cross section of scientists possible working across the field. When it comes to such an impossibly complicated matter as stem cells, the best role for legislators and Presidents may be neither to steer the science nor to stall...