My mother-in-law, Eva Sommerfreund, who has died aged 98, had a hazardous early life until she settled in London and enjoyed, with others who had escaped Nazi Germany, the music, art and literature that underpinned her life.
Pregnancy, experts say, can be hazardous or life threatening for certain women, particularly those with some congenital heart diseases, pulmonary hypertension and Marfan syndrome.
But a manhole explosion can be as scary -- and, on rare occasions, as hazardous to life, limb and property -- as an "improvised explosive device" (IED).
Following the spill, oil markets focused attention on PHMSA's corrective action order, a list of demands the agency can issue whenever it determines that a pipeline is "hazardous to life, property, or the environment".
These minor quakes, while not necessarily hazardous to life and property, could well form fissures that might allow stored CO2 to migrate upward from the formations identified as nominally "sealed" by CCS site analysis.
Ozone, a major component of smog in the troposphere, is hazardous to life due to its oxidative nature [ 1, 2].
In warning letters to the four companies — including Phusion Projects, which makes the top-selling caffeinated alcoholic drink, Four Loko — the F.D.A. said that drinking the beverages could lead to "hazardous and life-threatening situations".
A Jarred I. Kassenoff, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that while a state law known as the "warranty of habitability" obligates a landlord to ensure that a residential structure — including all common areas — is free of dangerous, hazardous or life-threatening conditions, a "rent abatement" for the loss of a required service isn't easily quantifiable.
His shirt is a lavish lavender, his cufflinks diminutive copies of nasty Russian-made land mines he's detected and destroyed some 2,000 times since signing on in 1994 in Mozambique with HALO, the Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organization, which pioneered humanitarian land-mine removal in Afghanistan in 1988.
