Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book contends that the concept of children as nonsexual beings is a relatively modern one and says forms of "sex play" considered harmless 25 years ago--such as masturbation before puberty--are now regarded by some psychologists as signs of abuse. Levine interviews family members who have been separated from one another when social workers made dubious claims of sexual abuse. She talks to a 21-year-old man sent to jail for up to 24 years for having sex with his 13-year-old girlfriend and wonders whether justice was truly served. The very fact that an author might...
...thanks to antibiotics and intensive care. Doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children decided to test a therapy previously used only in France. They treated stem cells taken from Rhys' defective bone marrow with the gene needed to create immune cells, which was carried by a harmless retrovirus. Now 18 months old, Rhys is leading a normal life...
...explosive-detection systems--machines that sniff out bombs in luggage. Congress has mandated that these machines be in service at all large airports by year's end. But sources tell TIME that the systems have been largely unreliable thus far. In some cases they average 50% error rates, confusing harmless material for deadly bombs and causing long delays. Airline officials fear the EDSs won't be able to handle the luggage of nearly 700 million passengers who fly in the U.S. each year. Former American Airlines CEO Robert Crandall said last week, "This equipment is simply not ready for prime...
...course, country music is tacky and sappy and simplistic and sung in a Southern accent. And of course it’s tailored to a certain mood—like cruising down a nearly-empty highway, with only a harmless-looking Ford Expedition for company. But it’s also an entertaining and uniquely American art form, written in the language of our vast country— the language of pickup trucks and open roads, of cowboys and honky-tonk bars...
Christian E. K. Lerch ’04 also gives a memorably hilarious portrayal of Teddy, the crazy but relatively harmless third brother, who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt...