Word: harmfulness
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...concluded that very young boys and girls would be better off in separate classrooms altogether. "[Previously], as far as I was concerned, single-sex education was an old-fashioned leftover. I thought of boys wearing suits and talking with British accents," he says. But coed schools do more harm than good, he decided, when they teach boys and girls as if their brains mature at the same time. "If you ask a child to do something not developmentally appropriate for him, he will, No. 1, fail. No. 2, he will develop an aversion to the subject," he says...
...good of Harvard, Lawrence Summers must resign, or the Corporation, for the good of Harvard, must fire him,” Fisher said. “We cannot wait for irreparable harm to come to Harvard...
...hand away from the stove, you shift your weight off the broken bone, you sit down. All pain signals ultimately land in the brain, where they trigger thought ("That was dumb!"), emotions (tears, sobs), memories and a complex array of biochemical events aimed at protecting your body from further harm...
...Islam should be the official religion of the country and one of the main sources for legislation, along with other sources that do not harm Muslim sensibilities." IBRAHIM AL-JAAFARI, leading candidate for Iraqi Prime Minister, on the role of Islam in the new Iraq...
...between the military and Abu Sayyaf rebels, who have joined with renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim guerrilla group that once agitated for an independent state. Abu Sayyaf, moreover, has promised further attacks in urban areas. "We will find ways and means to inflict more harm," Sulaiman told the radio host...