Word: safely
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...lethal combination of nerve-gas traces and pesticides, the mixture some experts believe is responsible for Gulf War syndrome. Years later came another piece of disturbing news: it turned out that the nuclear-bomb tests conducted by the Pentagon in next-door Nevada from 1951 to 1962 were not safe after all. President George Bush acknowledged as much in 1990, and since then the U.S. has paid $67 million to 1,338 of the "downwinders," many of whom live in Utah and believe their exposure to radiation caused leukemia and other ailments. An apparent victim was former Utah Governor Scott...
...like Elizabeth von Pfeil, daughter of Francis Zimmern, and lavish-living bankers like Andre Sukjin Lee say the main thing they dread is street crime, long virtually unknown. Lee's town house was broken into recently, and police blamed illegal immigrants from the mainland. "We've been a very safe place," says Von Pfeil. "But what will our police force be like...
...famous libel case--psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against the New Yorker's Janet Malcolm--turned in part on whether an interview took place over goat cheese at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or breakfast at Malcolm's Manhattan home. Details matter, especially when they wound real people. Reich is safe: his meals--lunch, breakfast, whatever--were with public figures. Not so the reader who thought Reich was being true to what happened...
There are a number of estrogen replacement drugs that are plant-derived, cruelty free, safe, and less expensive than Premarin. Among them are Estrace, Estriol, Ogen and Estraderm (used under the skin). Yet Premarin continues to be the most widely prescribed. Why? Because it has been on the market for a very long time, and doctors, like most persons, are creatures of habit. It's therefore extremely important that women inform their doctors that they will not participate in the slaughter of horses, young or old, and demand that they prescribe one of the plant-derived drugs...
...government is following these findings closely. It is in the process of setting the rules by which nuclear waste is stored, nuclear power plants are dismantled and nuclear weapons mothballed. Where the line gets drawn between safe and unsafe radiation exposure could cost, or save, tens of billions of dollars...