Word: risk
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Calling it "the most important sex discrimination case" since 1964, dissenting Judge Frank Easterbrook, a conservative Reagan appointee, assailed the ruling. Citing research indicating that contaminated men also risk injuring their offspring, he wrote, "No legal or ethical principle . . . allows Johnson to assume that women are less able than men to make intelligent decisions about the welfare of the next generation, that the interests of the next generation always trump the interests of living woman, and that the only acceptable level of risk is zero...
...prearranged sites. In Angola rebels help finance military operations with ivory. Among the larger bands of poachers, some men are designated as cooks, others as porters, assigned to lug the ammunition, mosquito netting and axes for cutting off tusks. Those who cross their path, be they ranger or tourist, risk death...
Tanzania is now getting tough. Since June 1, units of the police, army and wildlife department under Operation Uhai -- Swahili for life -- have arrested 1,840 people and seized more than 1,000 illicit tusks. Some frightened poachers dump their tusks into the Ruaha River rather than risk getting caught. But it is late for Tanzania's elephants. Between 1979 and 1987 their & population plummeted from about...
Obstetricians agree that care for high-risk patients needs to be expanded, but many object to the "less is enough" approach for healthy pregnant women. They stress the need for frequent visits. "These women have a zillion questions on their mind," explains Dr. George Malkasian, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "The earlier you answer those questions, the earlier you catch any problems...
...that knowledge to improve performance. An example: although Braden is a foremost advocate of top spin in tennis, he has proved, contrary to conventional wisdom, that tennis players who roll their racquets "over" the ball to impart top spin not only waste energy but also unnecessarily risk "tennis elbow." His high-speed film shows that the ball is in contact with the strings for only four milliseconds and is well on its way to the net before the player even begins rolling his racquet. "Anyway," says Braden, "if the player really hit over the ball, he would drive it into...