LILY GROSSBARD New York Keller's lament regarding the perceived perils brought by technology miscalculates the historical impact such advances have had on humans since time immemorial.
Dr. Russell Portenoy, chairman of pain medicine and palliative care at Beth Israel, said the policy reflected the perceived perils of too much specificity.
By 2021, they will be urging policymakers, parents and fellow citizens to act against the perceived perils of computers, which were built to aid and amuse us but which ended up corrupting the software of the brain itself.
Until now, mountaineers drawn by the challenge of climbing some of the world's most spectacular yet forbidding peaks were considered one of the few groups that remained impervious to the perceived perils of visiting Pakistan.
The first component, 'peril', relates to perceived danger from the stigmatised person, for example if their illness is considered contagious (e.g. HIV/AIDs) or they are considered dangerous (e.g. some mental illnesses).
In the first world war soldiers carried her books to the front line as companions in a terrifying conflict, perceiving peril in the pages and toughness in her words.
While the meetings business tried to find new traction in a soured economy, one strong undercurrent this year has been a shift away from foreign destinations in favor of American resorts that are deemed more removed from the threat of terrorist attacks, SARS and other perceived overseas perils.
Almost every threat to it - even from the Palestinians, who can never defeat Israel on the battlefield - is perceived as an absolute peril justifying the harshest response.
The brief The Mortal Danger (1980), translated from an essay Solzhenitsyn wrote for the journal Foreign Affairs, analyzes what he perceived to be the perils of American misconceptions about Russia.
