Word: harmfulness
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...anti-virus software. Perhaps the easiest thing you can do is install software that can detect and intercept viruses before they can harm your system...
...taking a simple chemical supplement is not the same as eating a vegetable. Scientist suspect there are other natural ingredients that work with the vitamins to promote health. But whether this news will put an end to the beta-carotene craze remains to be seen. The studies showed no harm in taking lower doses (3 mg) of the supplement, and the vitamin industry was quick to exploit that opening, suggesting that taking beta carotene might still be beneficial for nonsmokers. Yet even die-hard pill takers have to agree that the safest and cheapest form of prevention...
...This was a real cloak and dagger thing," Rooney said. "He threatened to harm the victim if he didn't get cash. There was a serious threat to kill." Police declined to identify the victim or release any specifics concerning in what capacity the victim was employed by Harvard...
Rooney said Afrasiabia began making threats against the Harvard employee in early November. "The victim was being extorted, and it involved money and physical harm to the victim," he said...
...needed isn't the FDA's concern, however. Like all food additives, fat-free fat falls under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and the food-additives amendment of 1958. According to those laws, olestra can be approved if it carries a "reasonable certainty of no harm" when used as intended. If olestra really makes people sick, as Jacobson and others assert, the agency might well reject it. But after much fretting over the precise definition of harm (and diarrhea as well), a majority of advisory-committee members decided that while the gastrointestinal and nutrient-blocking effects...