Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freeze-dried until needed, then sprinkled on straw and tossed into the ocean, the superbugs could presumably make quick work of oil spills by breaking down the crude into harmless protein and carbon dioxide. Says Chakrabarty, 42, now a researcher at the University of Illinois Medical Center: "You can make tons of these microorganisms in a matter of days." Nor, he says, would the bacteria pose any danger. After the feast, they would die for want...
...CCSR displayed an equal ignorance about realities in South Africa in its argument not to support an IBM shareholder resolution forbidding computer sales to the South African government. The Corporation claims the resolution would prohibit sales to such harmless institutions as hospitals and schools. With such logic, the University will never take any steps to wield its shareholding power against the South African military, which buys three-quarters of its computers from IBM. Past experience shows the government orders computers for "harmless institutions" and then passes them on to places like population control centers...
...seemed harmless enough. The Britain-based Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin sponsored a "Think Like a Thief contest, encouraging readers to compete for a ?100 ($215) prize by inventing plans for a computer-related fraud. But now there are international repercussions. In his winning entry, published in the Bulletin, Leslie Goldberg pinpointed an apparently fatal flaw in a new security technique recently proposed by major British banks and being considered by their foreign counterparts...
...notorious as the "town faggot." Rodney's family was friends with mine, so one Christmas Eve at my grandmother's house I was introduced to him. I trembled with fear as I heard his name. This was the loath some man I'd been warned about? He seemed as harmless as my grand-father. In fact, he seemed nicer than my grandfather...
...blood cells sink to the bottom, white cells settle just above, and the liquid plasma rises to the top. The Red Cross keeps the plasma and red cells for transfusions and turns the white cells over to Cantell. He infects the leukocytes with Sendai virus, an influenza-like virus harmless to humans, and incubates them at 37.5? C (99.5? F) for 24 hours. The resultant IF solution is centrifuged to separate out the white cells and partly purified to destroy the virus. What remains is a highly impure IF preparation; even after it is partly purified it consists of only...