Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...communities have formed. Stormfront, the first major white-supremacy site, was created in 1995 and now claims to have 45,600 members. Rough estimates put the total number of members of white-supremacist groups in the U.S. at about 100,000. Many more are unaffiliated--which doesn't mean harmless. Of all hate crimes, only 5% to 10% are committed by members of hate groups, says Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino...
...could consider turning to Florida for an eco-friendly way to fight their recent invasion of fire ants. The Sunshine State's weapon: the PHORID FLY. Phorid larvae, almost invisible to the naked eye, burrow into the ant's head, grow and eventually decapitate it. The flies themselves are harmless to humans and animals...
...democratic Iraq would inevitably become the Arab world's first Shi'ite-dominated state-a prospect from which the Arab leaders recoil for reasons of bias or fear. They also recoil from any demonstration of the possibility-indeed, the popularity-of free elections. Aside from the occasional harmless municipal election, those Arab states have either no elections or ones with only the great man on the ballot...
...humor with sarcasm and sexual danger, and he batted Ed McMahon about like a piñata. In private Carson was standoffish and in his marriages admittedly no saint. His jokes about his serial monogamy endeared him to viewers, but you don't rack up three divorces by being a harmless sweetie...
...wants to make any child feel excluded or alienated from his or her peers. But, it seems that instead of cutting Christmas and other seemingly harmless celebrations out of school curricula to the point of absurdity, it would be more beneficial to encourage education about different cultural traditions. The benefits of diversity can only be felt when people are allowed to share their beliefs and backgrounds—not when they are being silenced...