Word: uselessness
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...really practical and almost certainly will not factor into any future career. When I sit in section, surrounded by Divinity School students and devoutly religious undergrads who liberally sprinkle the discussion with direct quotes from Scripture and refer constantly to their well-worn pocket Bibles, I feel useless. So much of what they regard as fundamental truth appears, to me, the equivalent of a fairy tale. Approaching the material from my non-religious standpoint, I get the sense that any opinion I have is inconsequential...
...positive CA-125, explains Woolf, will need to have those results verified surgically--or by the insertion of a fiber-optic scope into the abdomen. Any surgical procedure carries a risk of serious complications, so offering the CA-125 screen to consumers is likely to increase the incidence of useless operations--and associated complications...
...laptop, plugged in an antenna and within moments slipped through the back door left open by the unprotected signal of the Seattle conference hotel's wireless network. "I was looking at their firewall from the inside," Mitchell says. "All the things they were using to protect themselves were useless," because he could have deactivated them at will. In the middle of Mitchell's talk--during which he projected in front of the audience his computer screen showing the network's firewall setup commands--one participant leaped from his chair and ran out of the room. "I asked him where...
...real? It's not enough to "bag and tag" everything at a crime scene. The trick is to figure out what's important. If, for example, a wife is suspected of killing her husband in their bedroom, virtually all trace evidence in the room-fibers, hairs, fingerprints-could be useless. Proving that the wife was in her own room probably won't help the case...
...School surveys became mechanical and useless,” Lagemann said, “but schools continued to do them...