Word: harmfulness
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...growing trend in the global war on terror" for military psychiatrists and psychologists to take part in interrogations. Now some mental-health professionals, even within the military, are growing concerned that colleagues who have helped interrogators may have broken the first rule of medical ethics: Do no harm. The American Psychological Association has organized a task force to investigate the work--much of which is shrouded in secrecy--and to craft ethical guidelines...
...labs like this around the world, bad bugs are undergoing the ultimate rehabilitation, being transformed from life-threatening viruses and bacteria into lifesaving therapeutic agents. Using the tools of molecular biology, researchers like Russell are disguising and manipulating common microbes so that they will do good instead of harm. After all, nothing is better than a virus at evading the body's immune defenses and breaking into a cell. And nothing is better than a bacterium at producing deadly toxins that destroy a cell from the inside. "We can make a good anticancer agent," says Russell, "by harnessing and channeling...
...resident of Lincoln Way stated that between 7 p.m., Feb. 28 and 3:45 p.m. she and her boyfriend had a series of arguments. He made threats to harm her, to kidnap their daughter, and to wait for her outside her work place. The suspect has also harassed her and her family and friends with phone calls. He also stole her cell phone. An emergency restraining order was sought and issued...
...myself inheriting a successful institution, so my first job is to do no harm,” Mankiw said. “I think changes will be more evolutionary than revolutionary...
...human-rights activist: "The freed men will now be thirsting for revenge against Mai and her family." Several human-rights activists are demanding that the Pakistani government provide Mai and her family with police protection; without it, they say, she may have to flee the village to avoid harm. Unbowed, Mai intends to keep teaching at the schoolhouse she built. The larger lessons of her traumatic experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned...