Word: hazard
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...physician, I believe obesity is a far greater public-health hazard than tobacco. It is associated with an increase in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, skin problems, depression, gastrointestinal disorders, heart failure - the list goes on. We should attack obesity exactly as we have gone after tobacco - with a national advertising campaign, more self-help groups, taxes on certain foods and the right to sue food manufacturers and restaurants. John M.R. Kuhn, M.D., Weston, Wisconsin...
...Lightning is another very common, very deadly - and very underappreciated - natural hazard. Men are more likely to die from lightning partly because, in addition to their riskier occupations and behaviors, they are more likely to be outside playing or watching sports, Songer found...
...about to let you in on a secret I've not shared with anyone, not even my nearest and dearest. If I'm going to succumb to that occupational hazard of movie reviewing - the noddies - it's most likely to occur in the hottest and highest-action sequences. I know this is counterintuitive. After all, those are the parts of the movies that are the noisiest and the most visually splashy - all flash cuts and zip pans, encouraging a lot of rapid eye movement. You'd think only someone suffering an advanced case of narcolepsy would be immune to them...
...Parisians were alarmed last Thursday when Paris police marched on the National Assembly demanding hazard pay for areas in which Algerian terrorists were active. France is a nation which never lets its history die, and the strike awoke fear of a right-wing Gaullist seizure of extra-legal power...
...Gavin has a fan following all his own, and I’d hazard a guess that a silent majority of students are looking forward to his performance this evening. At very least, a fair number will be pleasantly surprised after first hearing his catalog; I surely...