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...some. These include the Kurds, now safe and relatively secure in their largely autonomous and well-protected enclave in the northeast. They also include some Shiites who gained freedom from persecution and opportunities to advance their interests after the invasion—benefits that may still seem to outweigh the danger and destruction going on all around them. Think of those, for example, who were able to take advantage of the recent American disarmament of Sunni fighters in Baghdad to seize Sunni homes, thus turning Baghdad into an almost exclusively Shiite city. And then of course there are the heads...
...look forward to examining the relevant security issues with researchers and regulators. They also said that newer devices with wider transmission ranges were equipped with safety features incorporated. The study’s authors warned that patients should not be overly alarmed by the findings since the benefits still outweigh the risk. “The wireless technologies are important features,” Maisel said. “If I were to have a device implanted, I would ask for one that has wireless capabilities.” The researchers do not provide specific details of how a hacker...
...currency helps in capping the rising cost of food and fuel, which have both become concerns due to price inflation. But because dollar-based profits from overseas will drop, corporations could cut back on capital investment and employment, which will have a spillover effect on households. "The negatives outweigh the positives," says Masafumi Yamamoto, head of foreign exchange strategy for Japan at Royal Bank of Scotland...
...impossible to know which side wins in a cost-benefit analysis: “Might the Muslim students’ discomfort outweigh the educational benefits?” is an argument with which I sympathize. I am skeptical, however, that discomfort can ever be avoided when dealing with tensions of privileges, exclusion, and religion; these issues are controversial because of their public nature—in how they infringe on the privileges of some in order to benefit others—and the administration’s attempt to sidetrack controversy only created more...
Rosalynn D. Gill, another member of the PGP-10, said that releasing medical information should ultimately be a personal choice and should never be mandatory, but that she chose to participate in the program because the benefits of having a personal genome would “outweigh the potential risks...