Word: hazard
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...Angeles - The actor who walked into the Los Angeles office of David Grand complaining of feeling low and having trouble with his wife was suffering from what, in Hollywood, is an occupational hazard. Grand, a therapist and acting coach, discovered after a little probing that six months earlier his patient had played the part of a man trapped in a cave, slowly starving to death. Although he wasn't aware of it, the actor was still stuck in the role. Grand decided he had to work with both the actor and his alter ego to help them...
...Keynes? Could it be a deep interest in garnering the empirical skill set proffered by this empress of the social sciences before departing to a career of more abstractly conceived pursuits? Though I’ve yet to conduct a study on the question, I’d hazard that neither of these explanations is the correct one. I’m rather inclined to side with The Crimson Staff of 1929; most of the roughly 10 percent of Harvard undergrads who select economics as their field do so in preparation for a career in finance...
...year-old co-inventor of the foam board and cutthroat founder of the Orange County, California company that long ago drowned out most competitors and shrewdly monopolized its niche. Admitting that his company's use of the carcinogenic toluene diisocyanate, or TDI, is a highly regulated potential health hazard, Clark cited threats of "very large fines, civil lawsuits, and even time in prison" as reasons for the closure...
...breakfast feast at sunrise.“One of the most interesting parts of the study for me, as someone who never believed in the harm of controlled hallucinogens, was that it was done at all,” said Grinspoon, who has penned several books that question the hazard of common psychotropic drugs.Grinspoon commended the McLean team’s courage and their ability to overcome logistical obstacles. “Methodologically,” he says, “these people did really well.”Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor of Psychiatry Harrison Pope, the senior...
...Sunday. “I don’t think anyone had taken a look at it since 1961 when Quincy was first built,” wrote Kirshner, who was a resident of Quincy House as an undergraduate. The decaying vent has been identified as a fire hazard, worrying several administrators who recalled the Eliot Grille fire of November 2001. That fire forced all 430 Eliot House students to evacuate for an entire night and was deemed a “near-catastrophe” by then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...