Word: protecters
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...increase is due in part to the growing popularity of dogs that people buy to protect themselves against violent crime. The fiercely protective Rottweiler, in particular, has gone from 15th in 1986 to the second most owned dog in the American Kennel Club's registry of breeds. (Between 1979 and 1996, according to Sacks' study, Rottweilers were responsible for 29 fatal attacks, second only to pit bulls, which accounted for 60.) Ann Martin-Gonnerman, president of the Kansas City-based National Society for the Protection of Animals, says the problem isn't so much the canines...
Could fallout be good for you? Most scientists won't go that far. One possible explanation for the unexpected longevity of some atom-blast victims is that whatever enabled them to survive the blast in the first place--a natural resistance to disease, perhaps--continues to protect them. It is more likely, says the National Academy of Sciences' Evan Douple, a leading expert in the field, that radiation is not quite as harmful as was supposed. "Radiation in general is a very ineffective carcinogen," he says. Below certain very low levels, it may cause no harm...
...press--most of it unwarranted, if not downright false. In February, after the FDA met behind closed doors with officials from Wyeth-Ayerst to iron out details of the follow-up study, critics cried "cover-up"--as if the FDA never granted drug companies private meetings in order to protect trade secrets. In April the Associated Press reported that a 38-year-old, 120-lb. woman had died after taking Redux for just a few days. It turned out that she weighed 220 lbs. and was in fact murdered--a turn of events that can hardly be blamed...
...ideas for both Hong Kong and Beijing. Even as pro-democracy activists are staking out the Web as the only place where they may be able to elude China's restrictions on free speech, China is trying to build a virtual Great Wall around the tiny city to protect Chinese Internet users (100,000 so far) from unregulated western communication. Hoping to offer the world "a porthole through which concerned observers . . . can view the significant period in Hong Kong history," one Hong Kong group last week launched an online weekly called The Voice of Democracy. Its mission: to provide...
...change," said Harold Kinchelow, for 24 years the black principal. But he was defensive about the status quo, which does, after all, keep two principals on the payroll. Theron Long, for 27 years the white principal, was more direct. "How can it be racist when you're trying to protect the rights of a minority?" he bristled. Maybe Alison can help: It's not racist, she explains. It's just the wrong way to do the right thing, and it assumes biases that do not necessarily exist. In the recent election, she says, three openings for senior-class representative were...