Word: safely
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...have been available in most areas -- will ensure that a full-scale epidemic doesn't take place. "There's a misperception that every time there is a disaster, people are at risk," says Mitchell Cohen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "The key elements are providing safe water and safe food. Health authorities know this controls any infectious-disease problem...
...living in interesting times. Which may be why David Halberstam, prizewinning journalist and best-selling social chronicler, simply calls the period transitional, a truism that could apply to any decade. Likewise, his thesis that events of the '50s set the stage for the '60s, '70s and beyond is as safe as it once was to invest...
Although children who suffer convulsions triggered by fevers have commonly been treated with phenobarbitol, there are concerns about both its efficacy and its side effects. The new and superior replacement is Valium. A six-year study shows that it is safe and effective -- and it also reduces the risk of seizures recurring...
...first two to three years of life, he argues, lay the groundwork for the child's personality. "One of the basic capacities that children develop in that period is the ability to trust an adult so that they can look ahead to a world that seems to them safe and reasonable, rather than a world that is unpredictable and unstable." These are issues the courts cannot afford to ignore, Solnit contends. "The courts shouldn't make this child pay the price of their lawmaking...
...down. A few more degrees of rotation -- 10 or 11 o'clock -- and he would have fallen. Instead, as he pulled hard on the control bar to shift his weight forward and gain airspeed, the glider sank back into a controllable dive. "I've always said that gliding was safe," Lee mused later. "This was as near as I've come to backing my opinion with my life." (A few days later % U.S. team member Brad Koji went over the falls, slammed into his glider and parachuted safely to earth from...