Word: warns
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They never warn the reader whose...
...seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine, which is subject to both quackery and fads. A poorly trained massage therapist can do a good deal of damage. And some of the food supplements purveyed by health-food stores in recent years proved so harmful that they had to be pulled...
Instead, if I see a spider in my bedroom, I'll make a little agreement with it. I'll inform it (sometimes telepathically, sometimes out loud) that I'm about to leave the room. I'll warn it to disappear from sight. And usually, when I return, I won't see it anymore. I'll pretend it was never there...
Usually, this don't-blame-me syndrome manifests itself in that quintessentially American activity--the lawsuit. Over the summer, New York magazine told of a man who threw out his back in a refrigerator-carrying race, then sued the company that manufactured the refrigerator for failing to warn him not to run races with it strapped to his back...
This belated recognition of the Nazi atrocity is more than another voice in the cry of "never again" invoked to warn the world against future horrors of fascism and genocide. It is also an important step towards democratization and ethnic tolerance for the fledgling nation of the Ukraine...