Word: harmlessness
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...hoax of a wide-scale deliberate terrorist attack and responded accordingly. The first device was reported at 8:18 a.m. By 10:21 a.m., the BPD had blown up the box of lights with a water cannon (no radical laser was readily available) and determined that it was harmless. Over the next six hours, the BPD stomped around Boston shutting down highways, subways, waterways, and whatever sort of-ways the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority counts for the Silver Line, with more action-packed disorder than the first six hours of “24.” (Disappointingly, however, nobody...
...brain, centered around the amygdala, the hub of our fear and emotional responses. "To me, that means these ads are going to be unsuccessful," says Freedman. "This group of ads as a whole had a violence associated with them that didn 't connect with people as being humorous or harmless. Something about them made people not feel that it was all in good fun." Whether it was a dour-looking hitchhiker holding an axe and a pack of Budweiser, or a group of bankers in masks in a mock hold up of its customers, Sunday night 's offerings contained...
...junta's Cabinet has shrewdly tied its closing-door strategy to an existing royal mandate. After the regional financial meltdown a decade ago, Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej urged his subjects to forgo the turbo-charged drive of capitalism for a Buddhist-inspired "sufficiency economy" that embraced moderation. Sounds harmless enough. But free traders complain that the military junta is now using the fuzzy precepts of a sufficiency economy to undermine the legacy of former Prime Minister Thaksin, a billionaire who avidly pursued free-market policies, signing international trade deals and encouraging farmers to take out small-business loans. "Whether...
...scene. But let’s have no illusions about our behavior. Alcohol is a dangerous drug. It’s a depressant; it’s carcinogenic; it leads to reckless and potentially deadly behavior; it causes brain and liver damage. Marijuana, on the other hand, is relatively harmless. As studies have shown, there is no conclusive evidence that it causes cancer or a significant decline in cognitive functioning. Nor does it necessarily lead to dangerous behavior. Media claims that adolescent marijuana use leads to schizophrenia are hyperbolic at best. The worst thing getting high will...
It’s easy, Ms. Harper, to throw stones when your house isn’t glass but Green. The Harvard athletic administration, in a similar position, with a harmless hue as its nickname, didn’t take the bait, and for that it deserves some credit...