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...downtrodden members of the International Olympic Committee? Organizers are quick to assure the press that members of the IOC will be asked to pay for their own tickets. ?They?ll probably say no,? SLOC president Mitt Romney said at a press conference Thursday. ?But there?s no harm in asking.? Romney shouldn?t feel shy about billing IOC members; they're rumored to have some cash lying around...
...perhaps we should fight the problem head on. An extremely potent health argument could be made about the harm this is causing the uncelled in the form of, well, secondhand noise. It makes me very tense to be around someone who's calling the office from the train when he should be napping like the rest of us. My blood pressure goes into the red zone when I hear a cell person honk, "Hello! Wha--? Hello! Are you there? Hello!" especially when I know good and well that they lost their connection five minutes ago, only they haven't shut...
...Bush's economists believe you just might be able to. Led by Larry Lindsey, a former Federal Reserve governor, Bush's team is like a conservative All-Star squad from the Reagan-Bush years, a combination of supply-siders like Anderson and Harvard's Martin Feldstein, with do-no-harm pragmatists like Boskin. "There are no disagreements on where we're going," says Anderson. "But there are lots of discussions about the best way to get there...
...antidam groups got funding from the World Wildlife Fund-France and formed Loire Vivante. Jean, then an unemployed single mother, was named its first coordinator in early 1987. Among her first acts was to organize environmental-impact studies showing that the dams would harm water quality, threaten biodiversity, destroy several villages, displace hundreds of people--and still fail to provide good protection against flooding. In 1989 the group launched its most spectacular and effective action: the occupation of the Serre-de-la-Fare site by several hundred ecologists who camped in tents, cooked over open fires, strummed guitars--and blocked...
Then there's the possibility that a vaccine will do more harm than good. Every time you stimulate the immune system, you run the risk of triggering an inflammatory reaction, marked by fever, swelling and tissue destruction. In fact, many researchers believe the real destructive power of Alzheimer's comes not from the plaques but from the immune system's overreaction to them. The vaccine might also cross-react with other proteins, triggering an autoimmune reaction in which the body attacked its own brain cells...