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...When you have these decisions, you have a balance. On the one side, there's a claim by a government of some standing that what you're about to print will harm the country's security. And on the other side you have the conviction that you're being conned." The burden, in short, is on the editors to make up their minds in each instance...
Because of such reasoning, six of the testifying ethicists would rule out virtually all experiments that might harm a fetus, even if it is to be aborted. Ramsey drew an analogy with medical tradition that forbids risk to children and to persons who are condemned to death, irreversibly dying or unconscious...
...McWhirters insist there is no harm in encouraging people to believe that there are records to be broken. Their book features two separate warnings that trying to break underwater endurance records is extremely dangerous. And their publisher--Guinness's lifeblood notwithstanding--flatly forbids records involving the consumption of more than two liters of liquor (except, apparently, in the case of "a hard drinker" named Vanhorn, who is said to have emptied 35,688 bottles of ruby port before succumbing in 1811) as well as "potentially dangerous categories such as consuming live ants, quantities of chewing gum or marshmallows...
...There's probably only a half a dozen people in the world that do it," he adds, if he is asked whether harm might not come to people trying to break the "duration record for lying on a bed of nails (needle-sharp 6-inch nails, 2 inches apart)" which is "25 hours by Vernon E. Craig (Komar, the Indian fakir...
...worth of petrochemicals last year, is effectively managed, and should by any standards be doing well. But Chisso may soon have to shut down. It is one of several major Japanese businesses that have run afoul of a three-year-old government principle: companies that cause individuals any physical harm or financial loss through environmental pollution must compensate them...