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...want to expose that Playboy is not harmless," said Madge McQueen, one of the rally's organizers. Playboy, she said, portrays women "as bunnies, foxes, chicks. It still exposes the fact that we're still vaginas in women's bodies...
...four, two runs scored) led off with a double. Following an Allard strikeout, Maspons and DiCesare walked, and a Vierra sacrifice fly scored Martelli. A walk to Weller by the increasingly wild O'Neill and an Elliot Rivera infield single loaded the bases with two out. But Bauer's harmless grounder to first ended the inning...
...certain universities, heckling to silence and expel the intruder achieves a tribal quality; it becomes a gesture of group solidarity, a way that certain zealots in the academic capsule reaffirm the received wisdom of their tribe and symbolically slay the stranger. As such, it is after all a comparatively harmless practice. If academe were more profoundly primitive, undergraduates might have to initiate themselves into the group by, say, ritually mutilating a Republican...
...beam turns the electronic guidance system into silicon mush, sending the missile wobbling off course and totally immobilizing its nuclear warhead. As it plunges back into the atmosphere, no longer protected by the nose cone, most of the missile incinerates in the sizzling heat of reentry. Only a few harmless fragments reach the ground...
...that they are produced without the ionizing radiation of X rays. In significant doses, X radiation can damage cells and may be a factor in causing cancer; it may be particularly dangerous to the rapidly dividing cells of children and pregnant women. NMR, by contrast, appears to be harmless. "We can look at the developing brain of an infant easily and safely," says Dr. Robert Steiner of London's Hammersmith Hospital...