Word: harmfulness
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COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES Parents who spend a lot of time encouraging their children while they are playing could be unwittingly doing more harm than good. Researchers at Baldwin-Wallace College expected to find that parents who interacted the most with their kids had the most creative offspring, but the opposite was true. If parents are very involved, the child often feels he is being valued and judged, and that stifles his creativity and originality. So let children create on their own, and save the enthusiasm for the results...
...category of people, whether by description or depiction, those people can become regarded as less than human. In studies, the objects of such discrimination tend to be viewed as less important as individuals and less deserving of a place in our society. What does it matter if hurt or harm comes to such people, such thinking goes; they're not as important as the rest of us, and consequently less worthy of our regard and concern. This erosion of mutual respect is just that: a mutual loss...
...through sedimentation add thousands of acres a year of new land. Yet another would be to take immediate steps to reverse the loss of sensitive wetlands. Adding land through sedimentation is one of the best ways of restoring wetlands. Among other possible schemes: cutting back on shipping routes that harm marshes, installing wave absorbers to reduce wetland erosion and rebuilding damaged barrier islands...
Last month Tennessee at last reformed its reform, adopting the most sweeping changes in child care in state history. But that move came with a hard lesson: money without oversight and accountability may do more harm than good...
...complain? The current scions of the Heinz dynasty obviously know what they're doing; the company's been an American icon since the 1870s. And goodness knows there's no harm in innovation. I just hope the new ketchup doesn't pave the way for a landslide of increasingly dramatic reincarnations in the condiment market - or we could all spend the foreseeable future nibbling on sandwiches spread with magenta peanut butter and platinum-hued...