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...international arms race has become an issue of the past. Unfortunately, a much greater threat now arises: the arms race within America's cities. Some fight gun control in the name of self-defense, claiming that handguns increase their security. The streets would be much safer if neighborhood gang leaders had to undergo background checks before they walked out with...
Today, research into the production of new vaccines is a major undertaking, involving academic researchers, government agencies, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms all working to provide newer and safer prevention of disease by infectious agents, allergens, and even some forms of cancer...
Somehow the difference between eliminating prejudice and eliminating heresy impresses me less than their similarity. I think I have seen something of the latter in the reaction here to my perfectly ordinary opinions on homosexuality. So I prefer the middle position of toleration, which I think safer and more humane...
...general and the colonel were to resign two weeks ago, allowing Aristide to return to the island and his office this week. Instead Cedras has broken agreements and employed every kind of delay while subordinates terrorize the population. Those who can have fled the capital, hoping the countryside is safer. Like the attaches, the men at the top are determined not to lose the power they have amassed since the coup. They make big money from control of the ports and taxation, and some of them share in the drug trade that moves through Haiti at a brisk clip...
...proctor, I took it as a given that the Harvard officers were there to help me and my students. Now I know first-hand that the whole Square is safer and more secure, because of their work. Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78 Assistant Dean of Harvard College