Word: harmlessly
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ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP Specialized nanobots dumped into an oil spill, a toxic-waste site or even a polluted stream could seek out and find dangerous molecules, remove them or change their chemical structure one by one to render them harmless--or even beneficial...
...Administration step in and regulate anti-microbial agents in consumer products. The AMA is worried, it seems, that Americans' zest to rid their homes and bodies of all things bacterial may provide an opening for dangerous bacteria, whose numbers were previously kept under control by the presence of innocent, harmless microbes...
...doesn't mean ecstasy is harmless. Broadly speaking, there are two dangers: first, a pill you assume to be MDMA could actually contain something else. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most serious short-term medical problems that arise from "ecstasy" are actually caused by pills adulterated with other, more harmful substances (more on this later). Second, and more controversially, MDMA itself might do harm...
...from always providing definitive answers, CT scans often produce ambiguity, particularly when healthy people are subjected to them. Most of the time the scans turn up harmless stuff--a little scar tissue, a benign growth. But when they do, doctors have to perform more medical tests, frequently including invasive procedures, just to make sure that the spot is really harmless. "There certainly will be some people whose lives are saved [by the screening]," says Dr. Ron Arenson at the University of California, San Francisco. "But you have to weigh that against maybe thousands of patients who have had to undergo...
...that is soft on Montenegrins. If you had one of those Yugoslav names with a paucity of vowels, you might sprinkle in a few, and list your hobbies as boccie playing and fine-tuning your grandma's lasagna recipe. Or maybe, in order to reassure voters that you're harmless because culturally you're already Swiss, you could list your hobbies as eating heavy food, reminding others to be punctual and responding to attempts at humor by frowning and saying, "Is that meant to be funny, or what...