Word: harmlessness
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...tiny black holes occurred at CERN, they would evaporate before they got a chance to do any damage. (Even if Hawking's theories prove to be wrong - no one has yet witnessed black-hole evaporation - scientists at CERN say the LHC's collisions are already known to be harmless: an equivalent amount of energy is produced hundreds of thousands of times a day by cosmic rays colliding with the earth and other objects in the cosmos - always without incident...
...wrote, "No individual self is inherently evil, murderous or genocidal. Yet under certain conditions virtually any self is capable of becoming all of these." In Karadzic's case, the reverse was true. The warlord charged with ordering the massacre of more than 7,000 people in Srebrenica became a harmless quack described as "friendly" and "open" by his co-workers. Once a proponent of the view that the ills of society could be healed by cleansing itself of an ethnic group, Karadzic the fugitive maintained a fascination with acupuncture and meditation...
...right skin but the wrong tribe. Like the Wild Boy of Borneo, he is a reminder of instincts caged but not tamed by civilization. That such a creature has much to teach can be even more upsetting. So it is not the natives who are restless. Fairley, the harmless handyman of the good-hearted family that shelters him, stirs paranoia among the ignorant and the intolerant. Like the branches of their clans who thrived on slave labor in the American South, these early Queenslanders worry about uprisings and the loss of racial identity...
...past decade and a half, we've been importing a lot more from Italy and Spain and Southern France, and we've had this climatic change--so we have two potential causes." Whatever the reason for the appearance of the new bug in London, Barclay says its spread is harmless. But he concedes, "It does show what's possible [if more damaging species invade...
...Whatever the reason for the appearance of the mysterious new bug in London, Barclay says its rampant spread around the city is harmless. However, "it does show what's possible [if more damaging species invade...