Word: harmless
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...security officials at Ben Gurion as suspicious. After the usual bout of questions, they were led away to a special room where every ounce of toothpaste, lotion, shampoo and Neosporin in their luggage was squeezed out of its packaging and examined. They missed their original flight and, once deemed harmless, were eventually put on a later one, but only after officials seized my brother's scuba diving gear. I was able to get it released later...
...sleek lines of the Israeli Merkava tank protrude from behind an olive tree at the end of a track of churned earth, its barrel pointing menacingly at the border road. But this tank is harmless, a burnt-out and abandoned victim of Hizballah's deadly anti-armor missiles. The detritus of a hasty departure lies around the fire blackened tank - a green canvas army sack covered in dried blood, discarded food wrappers with Hebrew inscriptions and several broken stretchers...
...profiles of their customers. The supplements, one of which would have cost $1,880 a year, were not substantially different from those available for $35 a year at any drug store. It's not just about money, but safety too. As the GAO points out, not all supplements are harmless to all people...
...serial kidnapper, Philip Yeo looks harmless enough. But to hear some people tell it, he's a dangerous man. Over the past six years, Yeo has been roaming the world, trailing talented scientists in Washington; San Diego; Palo Alto, Calif.; Edinburgh and elsewhere, and spiriting them back to his home country of Singapore. Like any proud collector, Yeo never tires of ticking off his most prized trophies: former National Cancer Institute star Edison Liu, American husband-and-wife team Nancy Jenkins and Neal Copeland, British cancer researcher David Lane. "I'm a people snatcher," he says unashamedly...
...cure, for no such thing exists. Good health is about balance, and ill health occurs when the balance in the body is lost. If one can encourage rebalancing the mind, body and spirit, then health is a natural outcome. Diksha Chakravarti Reading, England While some complementary therapies may be harmless placebos, they typically involve a lot of interaction between patient and practitioner. By contrast, conventional medicine is often run like a production line that goes all out for speed. Communication with patients is cut back to the point where informed-consent ethics are ignored, clinical standards suffer, and misdiagnosis...