Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summit can be something other than just a harmless "getting to know you" social event or a public signing. In 1961 Soviet leader Khrushchev left a stormy summit with Kennedy thinking the American leader was a vacillating and indecisive man. Many historians argue that this experience led Khrushchev to believe he could place missiles in Cuba without worrying about an American response. Indirectly, but yet importantly, the 1961 summit almost led to a nuclear...
Most situations are harmless, they say. One evening this term they say they were on Old Campus--where freshmen live--and kissed each other goodbye, prompting stares and gasps among a group of freshmen...
Forget the Official Secrets Act. All that the Brits are going to catch with that one is a few harmless former spies eking out their pensions with ripping yarns about the bad old days in MI5. No, what they need over there is an Unofficial Secrets Act -- something that will stop the English underclass from converting squalid youthful memories into rude, shrewd, occasionally lewd movies of the kind that have lately been jostling away at one another -- and at our innocent colonial funny bones. As a group they form a kind of Disasterpiece Theater, more blithely brutal than typically British...
...dolphins wash ashore this summer with their flesh rotted and their livers damaged. Marine biologists suspect that an additional 200 dolphins have died at sea and that the entire coastal population is endangered. Last week scientists took a step toward identifying the mysterious killing disease: infection from common, usually harmless bacteria known as vibrios...
...permission to test vaccines on humans. Testing is already being done by Dr. Daniel Zagury of Paris' Pierre and Marie Curie University. Zagury included himself among twelve healthy people who received an experimental vaccine made up of a portion of the AIDS virus inserted into a larger, usually harmless virus called vaccinia. They also received a booster shot of their own cells that had been treated with the vaccinia. The volunteers, he reported, showed signs of antibodies to the AIDS virus. Nonetheless, warned Zagury, "we do not want to give false hopes...