Word: safes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard may not be the safest campus in America, but it is twice as safe as Yale, a new study reports...
...acts--Nirvana, Snoop Dogg--often clean up their acts to play Wal-Mart. But even that kind of screen isn't enough for parents such as Clarke, who hold Wal-Mart accountable for everything that ends up on the shelves: "They tout a policy that their stores are a safe haven, but they didn't honor...
...initial reason for my skepticism was that colds are caused by hundreds of different kinds of viruses. Finding a single treatment that is cheap, as well as safe and effective against all of them, is a daunting task. (Today's cold remedies treat only the symptoms and not the cause.) Then I started wondering if the folks at Gel Tech, the company that developed Zicam, knew what they were doing. Just four days after Gel Tech announced that its study of Zicam had been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Infection Control, the journal editor asked the company...
...draws its inspiration from the most famous ruling on the subject: a 1962 Supreme Court ruling that, while it banned school prayer, did say that the Bible could be included in school curricula if taught objectively. "After the 1962 ruling a lot of administrators, just to be on the safe side, banned almost any mention of religion from their schools," says Van Biema. "But to some extent the evangelicals who've been active on the subject of religion in schools have a point, that administrators have been overreactive in keeping any mention of religion out of the classroom." The willingness...
That may not be easy. Some scientists and consumer advocates charge that biotech companies have not proven their products are safe, citing studies showing lasting hazardous effects of genetically altered plants on the environment. And while some of the alarm surrounding modified foods may be overblown, as the biotech companies allege, consumers' deep-seated fears are not easily allayed. "Lots of people have a visceral, knee-jerk reaction to the idea of eating a rewired plant," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "It's not uncommon to have second thoughts about eating a tomato that's been injected with flounder...