Word: hazardously
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...strolled onto the lot where the blast of hydraulics, the turning of engines and the beeping of hazard warnings melded into a mechanized symphony. To the left there was curious structure--a little booth attached to a thirty-foot long scale. The trucks rolled onto the scale and proceeded towards the monstrous cavern where all of the gathered trash was dumped...
...usually stop them. They develop a sort of split personality when it comes to their bad habit: ask any addict around campus (and there are still quite a few out there, despite enormous social pressures to quit), and he or she will tell you that she pushes the health-hazard right to the back of her mind whenever she smokes...
...CPSC presented this warning to parents in absolute terms, saying that babies should never be allowed to sleep on adult beds, daybeds or waterbeds; that doing so exposes the child to a "potentially fatal hazard." The CPSC acknowledges "limitations" with its data, in that the reported cause of death in some cases is based on "anecdotal information." In some of the cases the babies might have been victims of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); it is also not clear if parents' consumption of alcohol or drugs might have contributed to the "overlay" deaths. (Interestingly, even safety equipment is dangerous...
...that might pull away from bed frames, smoking and drinking in bed," then co-sleeping was O.K. Otherwise they should have their infant within reach in a bassinet. "They have this kind now that straps to the bed," Dr. Kattwinkel offered. "Straps? I don't know. Sounds like a hazard to me," I said. He assured me that there are bassinets out there that have been tested and approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission...
...preface, Purdy boyishly admits that his book is "one young man's letter of love": it is this vulnerability that makes Purdy a moving and an effective narrator. That Purdy's sincerity can become overbearing, that it can devolve into sentimentalism, is acceptable collateral damage, an occupational hazard of writing from the heart. It is one of the occupational hazards of being a resentful book reviewer and a claptrap ironist, it seems, that Hodge has become unable to read from the same place...