Word: harmfulness
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...post-cold war world. After the fall of the U.N.'s ''safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa to the Serbs in July, Clinton faced a choice: either take military and diplomatic control away from the U.N. and the Europeans, or be forced to send thousands of American soldiers into harm's way to help withdraw U.N. troops. Clinton's priority in Bosnia has always been to avoid sending in soldiers while the war was going on, and he chose engagement...
Market pressures and the demands of the Russian economy may eventually make the route financially viable. That is a moment many environmentalists dread. Tankers are likely to be the chief users of the route, and oil spills could do unimaginable harm to arctic ecosystems. Dorothy Childers of Greenpeace points out that the sea route follows the easiest path through the polar ice, the same path taken by migratory birds and marine mammals. Will development be worth the risk...
...anxious. People feel the thrill of victory but also the agony of defeat, not to mention pregame jitters. According to evolutionary psychology, such unpleasant feelings are with us today because they helped our ancestors get genes into the next generation. Anxiety goaded them into keeping their children out of harm's way or adding to food stocks even amid plenty. Sadness or dejection--after a high-profile social failure, say--led to soul-searching that might discourage repeating the behavior that led to the failure. ("Maybe flirting with the wives of men larger than me isn't a good idea...
Furthermore, opponents of reverse discrimination insist that it does harm even to its intended beneficiaries, by stigmatizing them in the eyes of others and teaching them the wrong lessons about race and effort. If that is true, it is equally true whether the reverse discrimination is public or private. Is Oseola McCarty's blacks-only scholarship really sending the wrong signal? Is it really doing the young blacks of southern Mississippi who will benefit from it more harm than good? Well, that's the argument...
...Michael Almereyda's Nadja, smoking is one of the few pleasures a vampire can take without harm. The Dracula family has come to New York City, and Nadja (Elina Lowensohn) is a kind of Lydia Languish of the undead, striking fashionable poses as she plants her teeth in a few sweet necks. With her bleached face, impossibly high forehead and black hood, Lowensohn looks like Death in The Seventh Seal, only cuter...