Word: harmlessness
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...read about it in the newspaper and it seemed like an interesting thing to do and good, harmless fun,” said Matt Fonts, a public accountant from Somerville, as he and a friend wended their way toward the Palmer Street Coop in preparation for the public stunt...
...visits from the police, who've looked at the store's licenses to sell alcohol, herbal products and smoking instruments. The cops say as long as the licenses are maintained and the products remain off the banned list, the store is legitimate. Secci insists her wares are harmless: "These products simply give you more energy and leave you completely lucid." Giuseppe Rotilio, a professor of nutritional science at Rome's Tor Vergata University, says little research has been done on the substances sold at smart shops, though many of the pills and elixirs have long been sold in different forms...
...irresponsibly dumped chromium-6, and that the substance is a carcinogen. When inhaled regularly over long periods of time, it can cause cancer of the lung and the septum. But current studies show that, ingested in the trace amount found in Hinkley's water, or in food, it's harmless. According to a 1998 Environmental Protection Agency report on chromium-6, "No data were located in the available literature that suggested that it is carcinogenic by the oral route of exposure...
Franklin wasn't the first to propose a kinship between harmless sparks and a lightning bolt. But he was the first to suggest an experiment to prove it. The Royal Society of London published his proposal, yet it was the French who actually put it to the test. The experiment Franklin proposed, which he first revealed in a letter to his English agent in July 1750, called for installing on a high place, like a steeple, a sentry box with a metal pole extending from its roof. If an electrified storm cloud passed overhead, Franklin said, the pole--preferably sharpened...
...HUPD officers were sent to Pound Hall on Mass Ave. to investigate a suspicious package. Officers determined the package was harmless...