Word: harmfulness
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...U.S.A.-emblazoned T shirt, walked into the kitchen and found himself facing 30 soldiers carrying AK-47 rifles and dressed in battle fatigues. The soldiers set up portable radios and turned the house into a small battle center. After three hours of captivity, the students were released without harm. Said Doyle about the soldiers: "I asked them to please lock up when they left." (He later found the house abandoned, locked, the AK-47s left behind...
...until 4 p.m. on Wednesday that airborne units assaulted the troops surrounding the campus. Some of the students feared they would be taken hostage, although the Grenadians and Cubans had never made a move to harm them. They apparently ringed the school in a defensive stance, knowing the U.S. forces could not use heavy firepower with the students so close. Finally, Marines and Rangers in six choppers broke through. Faces blackened, weapons at the ready, they kicked a dormitory door down and one declared, "We're friendly forces. We are American Marines." Students soon began running for the evacuation...
Turnbull says the police don't bother him about his business, although gambling is illegal in Massachusetts In fact, he says, "they have sort of taken a liking to him because he is not doing any harm and people seem to enjoy...
...dangerous precedent for a local community, or any governmental body, to forbid particular kinds of research because they might lead to dangerous or undesirable consequences. Granted, governments have the power to regulate the regulation of knowledge in order to protect the public from harm. But it is quite a different matter for a government to forbid the acquisition of knowledge. Our traditions of free speech and free inquiry are born of a conviction that governments are poor censors and ultimately serve us badly when they try to decide what kinds of knowledge are too dangerous to acquire. Opponents will argue...
...federal investigation into reports of widespread abuse of computer networks. For months authorities have been waging a quiet war of nerves with the thousands of teen-agers who use their home terminals and telephone hookups to dial into larger systems around the country. Most are careful to do no harm, but for those bent on doing damage, the opportunities are boundless. One 14-year-old brags that he penetrated a computer belonging to a brokerage firm and erased a group of commodity trading accounts. Particularly vulnerable are the 1,200 computer systems that can be reached through a single telephone...