Word: harmfulness
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Much has been made of the abuse of the learning-disability law by middle-class parents desperate to get help for their underachieving children, but the real problems are more subtle. The rising numbers of learning-disabled (or "special needs") students have altered classroom dynamics in ways that harm average kids' ability to learn. The old practice of sticking special-ed kids in separate classes for the duration of the school day has given way to the policy of "mainstreaming," or "inclusion": nearly half of all special-needs students--and many more than that in suburban districts--spend most...
...conflicting report or an experimental treatment to consider. Take last week's carefully worded advice about two anticancer drugs sent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by a panel of experts. If you don't pay close attention to the details, you could wind up doing yourself more harm than good...
...billion markdown is small change compared with the devastation that the Russian collapse inflicted on central banks and stock markets in other countries, even those seemingly out of harm's way. Venezuelans stumbled through a valiant, painful defense of their bond market, Brazilians scrambled to save their currency, and Americans watched a nervous stock market plummet, pause and plummet again. Russia's slide was a reminder that every investment is at heart a bet on the future. Last week the future looked awful...
Even a Little One like Bonnie, of course, can do plenty of harm. Some half a million people were forced to flee inland last week, as the 400-mile-wide storm--mammoth in size even by hurricane standards--swirled toward Cape Fear, N.C. And though Bonnie's 115-m.p.h. winds slowed rapidly as she lumbered inland, her forward progress slowed too, with the result that the storm hovered over the state and pummeled it for more than a day. Downed power lines robbed over 240,000 people of electricity. Even worse than the winds were the rains--more than...
...nice, tidy little scandal. You'd pick up the morning paper buoyed by the knowledge that you were almost certain to find some embarrassing revelation--maybe some weasel words from the publishing house that had given assurances of the manuscript's authenticity--but that little harm could come of it all beyond a couple of years in the pokey for Irving. Even if there had been cable-news channels then, none of them would have had a format that could have been described as "all Clifford, all the time...