Word: harmfulness
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...toxic substances in the pelicans. One wild theory is that fishermen may have poisoned the birds so that fewer of the lake's trout will be eaten by them. Wildlife biologists scoff at such speculation, and city water officials insist that there is nothing in the water to harm humans. But until the Great White Pelican Mystery is solved, worry and rumor, unlike the birds, seem certain to thrive...
...invigorating and encouraging evidences of the continuity of the New Orleans jazz tradition." Other critics have not been so effusive. "I wouldn't rate him as a professional," says Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. "It's cute; it doesn't do any harm...
...This year the U.N. Statistical Commission will undertake a periodic 20-year review of the way it monitors the world economy. The World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank, is urging the U.S. to press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...
Yard said the pro-choice movement had won a major victory this week with a House of Representatives vote to allow federally funded abortions in cases of rape, incest and possible harm to the woman...
Society did not, however, randomly selectpeople to target as witches; most of the accusedshared several distinguishing characteristics.Most of the accused confessed to being witches,"...or, ...at any rate, pretended to [have]extraordinary powers..."1, used to scare theirenemies and harm livestock. This characteristic isquestionable in that many of the witches whoconfessed did so under torturous conditions. Inthe late 1500's and early 1600's in Europe, theaccused were tried, tortured until they confessedand immediately put to death for practicing blackmagic.2 In Salem, the accused were not tortured;thus initial and convincing confessions ofactually practicing witchcraft were rare...