Word: nonstandard
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...proved safe and beneficial but warns against side effects and other risks. It advises pregnant and nursing women not to take kava, for example, and notes that some people may become sensitive to sunlight when using St. John's wort. It approves standardized doses of ginkgo extract but rejects nonstandard preparations made from whole leaves as untested and potentially hazardous. At the same time, it turns thumbs down on folk remedies like nutmeg for upset stomachs, noting scant evidence that it works and warning that large doses can cause hallucinations...
...pleased to see the true story and outcome of "John/Joan's" treatment. The erroneously published outcome of his case has stood for more than 20 years as "proof" that gender is acquired, that sex and gender--and by implication, sexuality--can be surgically imposed upon children who are genitally nonstandard, regardless of the cause. I assure readers that this surgical treatment modality was not confined to "the 1960s and early 1970s": it continues today for approximately five children per day of the perhaps 1 in 2,000 children born with some anomaly of biological sex differentiation. The ramification of this...
...getting your hands on the hardware is only half the battle. Hooking a nonstandard CD recorder up to an industry-standard computer may take a bit of doing--even for someone who's not afraid to read a manual. Then there's the bandwidth problem. Downloading full-length music CDs over even a high-speed modem will clog your phone line for a lot more hours than it takes to drive to the nearest Tower Records and back. That's assuming you can find a full-length version of the music you want. The RealAudio versions of songs that most...
...terrible, very embarrassed, very bad,...less than worthy," nor are they plagued by fears that 'if [they] died accidentally [they] wouldn't be able to remove the material." In fact, most of them are involved in stable, monogamous relationships. They do not engage in bondage, bestiality, or any other nonstandard sexual practice. None of them has ever employed a prostitute, though some of them have rented adult movies and visited the Combat Zone--activities which the article places on the same level as prostitution...
...sales of competing encryption systems, the government is trying to make it difficult for any alternative schemes to become widespread. If Clipper manages to establish itself as a market standard -- if, for example, it is built into almost every telephone, modem and fax machine sold -- people who buy a nonstandard system might find themselves with an untappable phone but no one to call...