Word: risking
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...program is currently off-line so that the shuttle schedule can be updated for the new school year, but there is a serious risk that it may go off-line again--for good this time, according to Malan...
...reorganization help? Thompson doubts it. The labs do have some inherent porousness ? mostly the results of a college campus-like atmosphere ? yet it is that atmosphere which is critical to attracting the field?s best and brightest in peacetime. President Clinton opposes the shake-up but probably won?t risk a fight over it, not when the larger defense bill passed the Senate 93-5 and the House 375-45. And if the plan won?t slow down Chinese spying much, it is at least a minor blemish on Clinton's record card ? and that?s good enough...
Shingles (a.k.a. herpes zoster) is a common ailment. Over the course of a lifetime, 2 out of every 10 people who have had chicken pox will experience its misery. But while the disease can strike at any time, the risk increases sharply after age 50. Why? Probably because older people have fewer antibodies against varicella-zoster circulating in their bloodstream. Also at high risk are those whose immune systems are compromised, such as AIDS and transplant patients...
...residences of anti-sludge activists Helaine Shields, Jane Beswick and others? Did Rubin attempt to bribe a waste-treatment-company executive to get him to "refrain from raising concerns" about sludge transportation and stop insisting it be transported as hazardous waste? Has Rubin been distributing "selected, preliminary" risk data that appeared to discredit sludge-toxicity findings by EPA scientist David Lewis? The agency has come under fire for harassing its scientists who question regulations. Now the intimidation may have spread. "I must be onto something, or he wouldn't be coming at me like this," says California dairy farmer...