Word: harmlessness
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...doesn't mean ecstasy is harmless. Broadly speaking, there are two dangers: first, a pill you assume to be MDMA could actually contain something else. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most serious short-term medical problems that arise from "ecstasy" are actually caused by pills adulterated with other, more harmful substances (more on this later). Second, and more controversially, MDMA itself might do harm...
...from always providing definitive answers, CT scans often produce ambiguity, particularly when healthy people are subjected to them. Most of the time the scans turn up harmless stuff--a little scar tissue, a benign growth. But when they do, doctors have to perform more medical tests, frequently including invasive procedures, just to make sure that the spot is really harmless. "There certainly will be some people whose lives are saved [by the screening]," says Dr. Ron Arenson at the University of California, San Francisco. "But you have to weigh that against maybe thousands of patients who have had to undergo...
...that is soft on Montenegrins. If you had one of those Yugoslav names with a paucity of vowels, you might sprinkle in a few, and list your hobbies as boccie playing and fine-tuning your grandma's lasagna recipe. Or maybe, in order to reassure voters that you're harmless because culturally you're already Swiss, you could list your hobbies as eating heavy food, reminding others to be punctual and responding to attempts at humor by frowning and saying, "Is that meant to be funny, or what...
...only reason that this hasn't become a national news story is the somber announcement two weeks ago that Giuliani has an early form of prostate cancer. No matter how harmless and how treatable it might be, nobody should be allowed to make fun of somebody with cancer--not even an op-ed writer. What is permissible, however, is to question Giuliani's ability to compete in a historic senate race between two political heavyweights. The First Lady versus the Mayor of New York was bound to be a national news story, but with the recent turn of events...
...views of dissident academics whose views were debated and discounted a decade ago in the U.S. To the consternation of South Africa's own medical and AIDS-activist community, Mbeki has invited Berkeley molecular biologist Peter Duesberg and his colleague David Resnick - who maintain that the HIV virus is harmless and not the cause of AIDS - to serve on a panel advising the government over whether to make AZT available to pregnant HIV carriers. Duesberg and Resnick argue that the high incidence of AIDS in Africa is based less on unprotected sex than on such poverty-related conditions as undernourishment...