When embraced by humans, many can find this uncomfortable or threatening.
However, it was a powerful lesson for me that a harm reduction approach to drug use is not simply about preventing infectious diseases but is a holistic philosophy that, when embraced by drug users themselves, can have a significant role in providing a sense of stability and centeredness that had previously been lost.
Research in 23 organizations has shown that, when fully embraced by senior teams, SFP facilitates dramatic and rapid changes in strategic understanding, organizational design, leadership and the capacity for ongoing learning.
It was not widely seen until the early 1980s, when it was embraced by feminists.
Sobel's first 15 minutes occurred in the mid-1940's, when she was embraced by the art world as a kind of Surrealist savant.
Despite the promise of these investigations, Grob and other end-of-life researchers are careful about the image they cultivate, distancing themselves as much as possible from the 1960s, when psychedelics were embraced by many and used in a host of controversial studies, most famously the psilocybin project run by Timothy Leary.
Even now, when infrastructure is embraced by leaders in both major political parties as a necessary emergency means to spur job creation and economic recovery, this earlier thinking is important because it may point the way to a sustainable approach to infrastructure policy beyond short-term economic stimulus.
To judge from her book, the most exciting time in her life was the election of 2008, when she was embraced by the army of "everyday, hardworking Americans," the "everyday folks," and "thousands of regular Americans coming out with their signs" who mobbed her tumultuous rallies, thrilling to her odes to the "true America".
With so many songs, an open concert-taping policy, songs over three hours long, jams that can veer into Grateful Dead territory, claims of taking drugs to make music and liberal musical experimentation, it was no shocker when Ween was embraced by the jam-band scene.
A turning point for the group, which was formed in 1973, came when it was embraced by President Ronald Reagan, who promoted ALEC's efforts to privatize government and advance corporate interests.
They doubtless said that when embracing Mr Stanford, too.
