Word: harmfulness
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ROBERT GOOD'S metaphor may be mixed, but it is apt. As a swimmer in an ocean of organisms, man must have a means of identifying and resisting the ones that can harm or kill him. The major mechanism that does this, and enables man to survive, is the immune system, designed by nature to quickly recognize, attack and destroy any foreign matter that enters the body. The system is complex and depends for its function on a wide variety of highly specialized substances. Its main agents are cells called lymphocytes, which are produced by the so-called "stem...
...always aware of all the medications that a patient may be taking, especially those bought without prescription. The patient knows what he is taking, but is rarely aware of the dangers. But there is someone in a position to know both the drugs being taken and the harm that wrong combinations can cause: the pharmacist. By keeping a medication profile of each steady customer and referring to it each time he fills that customer's prescriptions or sells him over-the-counter drugs, he can prevent the possibility of a harmful reaction...
...book is a reliable product, full of suspense, with racing backgrounds as sound as Buckpasser's bloodlines. His style has one peculiarity a wide streak of rather naive masochism. The likes of Spillane use sadomasochism calculatedly and in trite conjunction with sex. Francis' men (he would never harm a woman) customarily suffer alone, in traps set by a villain far offstage. In addition, permanent personal affliction usually lurks somewhere. The hero of For Kicks has a crippled hand. Forfeit-one of Francis' stronger plots-is marred by a wife in an iron lung whose patience rivals Penelope...
...evidently not had the snow cleared from it earlier and had not been sanded when it iced over. There was no warning posted to show this. This state of affairs is not only a danger to faculty, students and visitors, but makes Harvard liable in law for any serious harm that may result. The Department responsible must take that responsibility more seriously. E. Badian Professor of History
...team of eight doctors operated on Stennis at Walter Reed for more than six hours, working primarily to repair the damage of one bullet that penetrated his stomach, pancreas and colon. They feared bacterial infection from the colon and harm from digestive enzymes flowing from the open pancreas into the abdominal cavity. The other bullet caused only a flesh wound in his left thigh. While his condition remained "very serious" and the prognosis for recovery was described as "guarded," his good physical condition from years of exercise, nonsmoking and almost no drinking was a factor in his favor...