Word: harmlessness
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...child has, the less likely he or she is to develop allergies later in life. Having siblings, living on a farm or spending time in a day-care center also reduces allergies. Why? Presumably because exposing still-developing immune systems to allergens primes the body to recognize them as harmless. The protective effect is negated, however, if parents expose a child to secondhand smoke...
...pill can make you feel better, it must be all in your head, right? There's some truth to that, it turns out. Using an imaging technique that maps differences in blood flow in the brain, researchers were able to watch the placebo effect in action. Subjects were given harmless but painful electric shocks and then given a cream they were told would provide relief but actually contained no active ingredients. After the bogus salve was applied, scans showed that nerve activity in the brains of volunteers visibly changed. Regions involved in easing pain became more active, while areas involved...
These projects might seem harmless enough. (After all, who doesn’t love historic bathhouses and weather folklore?) But what Peterson and his fellow champions of pet projects presumably won’t be including in their glossy re-election campaign brochures is that Congress also approved an adjustment to the chronically under-funded Pell Grant program, the principal means by which American students receive need-based government grants to attend college. Eligibility for the awards is determined in part by an examination of state tax information, but lawmakers chose to use tax tables that were out of date...
...evaluating these programs in Minnesota and Maryland indicate that teaching abstinence to high school students is more or less useless if not offered in conjunction with normal safe-sex education, whereas studies with fifth-grade (!) students in seriously disadvantaged areas of Illinois imply that they are mildly effective or harmless. These are not compelling numbers, to say the least...
...well, with Nicole Symington scoring just 3:16 into the game by putting the puck right through Vitt’s pads. Yale went on to increase its lead to 2-0 over the Crimson when at 4:13 in the second period, Bulldog Kelsey Johnson slipped an apparently harmless shot past Vitt...