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...Israeli scientists claim that their test is safe. But many other doctors believe that such tests are dangerous and may harm the child or mother. At any rate, nothing can be done but wait for birth to see whether the test is correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boy or Girl? | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...list will do a great deal of harm, he added, because it will discourage men from supporting worthwhile causes out of fear of being blacklisted themselves...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: Shapley, Mather Discredit Senate Subcommittee List | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

When the seed sprouts, the young roots absorb the Thimet, and as the plant grows, the poison spreads through it without doing any harm. But insects that eat the plant or suck its juices die of their poisoned meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Something for the Farmer | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...note that Fund President Hutchins has confused liberty with license, is the "ponderous pixie" who uses endowment for current whims. Why not endow the study of the love life of lefthanded caterpillars? That would do no harm and would give employment to plenty of pixies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...have been "over-radiating," a radio term for sending out a signal more powerful than the FCC allows. Under a law passed in 1932, the FCC is given power to order any guilty station off the air, even if, as in WHRB's case, it is doing no appreciable harm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radiation Poisoning | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

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