Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...racial and religious hatreds mixed in, giving fresh scope to terrorist free-lancers. Much of the violence committed today in the name of Islam is the work of small, loosely organized cells who emerge for little more than a single act of random vengeance. Sections of Pakistan are ungovernable safe havens for the remnants of 20,000 zealous volunteers from Muslim countries all over the world who went to join the Afghan mujahedin in their holy war against the Soviets. An estimated 1,000 fundamentalist fighters still gather in the country's lawless reaches to train and egg each other...
...they have. They represent the damage done not to an individual nervous system, but to a city's--perhaps a nation's--sense of security and self. As the Asahi Shimbun editorialized, "While it is hard to build a safe society, it is very easy to destroy it." One senior security official looked a reporter in the eye on Thursday and said, "Yes, I am very worried about another attack, a revenge attack...
...Stites, for one, is confident that "once faculty members know where the line is, people can relax about normal mentoring, normal faculty-student relationships. If they do not know where the line is, they will not feel safe to do anything that might be misconstrued...
...hospitals use to catch errors and review doctors' performance. "You would not walk on an airplane if you did not know that there are safety checks and backups and backups of the backups," says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of the Health Research Group. Hospitals need just as many fail-safe mechanisms, he says, "so that even if one or two fail, the third one catches the mistake...
...patients seem to know that morning-after birth control pills are a safe, legal and effective way to interrupt potential pregnancies, according to two studies released today by the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation. The main reasons: doctors are not recommending them to patients, and drug makers are not advertising them as after-the-fact birth control for fear of apolitical backlash from abortion opponents. The foundation surveyed 270 women and 300 ob/gyns. In order to educate the public about the availability of the treatment, a small group of health care professionals are planning to post a list...