Word: harmfulness
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That the Americans would be safe from harm was widely accepted; Amin kills his own countrymen, rarely foreigners. Still, the man's long history of abnormal behavior worried Washington. "Goddammit," said one White House adviser, "why couldn't our first crisis have been a more dignified...
...blessing. Ray Davis, a University of Arizona law professor, says rainmaking could be considered a form of "cloud rustling" and believes that diverting another nation's or state's cloud system could be construed as illegal diversion of its water. Says Davis, "If one country causes environmental harm to another, there is liability." He also cautions that weather modification could become a form of warfare, enabling hostile countries to cause droughts or floods in the lands of their enemies...
...interpret them innocently. The Vogue spread drew only 35 letters, pro and con. Says Managing Editor Kate Lloyd: "The pictures reminded me of when I was 16 years old and indulged in horseplay with fellas. That's why it surprises me that people would read into it real harm...
Recombinant DNA research has led to extensive public discussions of two potential risks: the immediate risk of harm from some of the novel organisms produced, and the more conjectural, long-term risk that our interference with evolution will eventually create unforeseeable disasters. These discussions have been based largely on the assumption that any novel organism produced by this technique may well survive and spread. But this assumption ignores Darwin's great discovery: the dominating role of natural selection in determining what survive, multiplies, and evolves. While Darwin dealt only with the visible living world, Pasteur made essentially the same discovery...
...Frazier. She wrote Gilmore that she believed in reincarnation. She also asked him what his favorite color was. Gilmore was touched. He wrote back to say that he wanted to die because "I'm not a nice person; I don't want to cause any more harm. I've harmed too many people and by doing so I've harmed my own soul." And his favorite colors were blue and orange...