Word: safe
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THERE ARE still some caveats even if the practitioner of "safe sex" manages to avoid such trauma. Industry and government studies demonstrate that the AIDS virus cannot penetrate latex condoms. Other studies, though, underscore the susceptibility of latex condoms to rapid deterioration when exposed to heat, light or oil-based lubricants. (I know of no studies examining the effects of genuine cowhide on latex.) And earlier this year the Food and Drug Administration ordered three major condom manufacturers to recall 100,000 condoms after spot inspections found many with excessive leaks...
When should youngsters be tucked away in bed, safe from the corrupting influence of raunchy radio and off-color television shows? After midnight, the Federal Communications Commission determined last week. In a clarification of its newly enunciated guidelines on "indecent" programming, the commission ruled that broadcasters can air such material between 12 midnight and 6 a.m. without fear of FCC censure. Reason: those are the hours when children are not likely to be in the audience...
...setting up a safe harbor for indecent fare late at night, the FCC satisfied few interested parties. Paul McGeady, general counsel for Morality in Media, complained that the decision will open the floodgates to post- midnight smut: "There's no reason that raunch-radio persons won't become raunch-television persons." Broadcasters and civil libertarians, meanwhile, continue to object that the commission's definition of indecency is distressingly vague. Most network and local station officials insist that their standard on what is permissible will not change because of the ruling. Still, it could open the way for more explicit radio...
...North and other alleged conspirators. The relative speed and alacrity with which Switzerland turned over the records may have surprised many Americans, who have always considered the Swiss bank account to be synonymous with anonymity and protection. Is money held in the vaults of Zurich and Geneva no longer safe from the prying eyes of U.S. investigators...
...engineers who are now removing theasbestos find that it is not a safe site for thehospital then we will move it," Eraklis said...