Word: counteractions
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This particular form of dystrophin is not usually affected in muscular dystrophy. If the protein were produced in large enough quantities it might be able to take over the functions of abnormal dystrophin present in muscular dystrophy, and partially counteract the effects of the disease...
...promotion of racial harmony because it has a diverse student body living in close quarters. Its capacity for racial integration rests largely on the achievement of Lowell's vision of what the social life of the Houses could bring about. "One object of the University is to counteract rather than copy the defects of the day," he said. "It is in the College that the character ought to be shaped, aspirations formed, citizens trained, and scholarship implanted." He added: "In relations of undergraduates to one another, might there not be more points of intellectual contact and might not considerable numbers...
These critics fail to realize that the value-free model of education, which separates "objective" knowledge from "personal" beliefs, is an artifact of the self-same secular/pluralist society which religious schools are founded to counteract...
Arab and Arab-American students on campus constitute a small but increasingly vocal community. In recent years, the Society of Arab Students has developed an increasingly strong presence on campus in an attempt to counteract insensitive jokes and stock images about Arabs perpetuated in student publications and by classmates. Arab students at Harvard complain that too often they find themselves...
...interest in trying to counteract the subtle pall of racism, which students interviewed say pervades the campus, sometimes becomes a burden, many Black students say. Dispelling stereotypes and disproving claims that many Black students earned admission because of affirmative action are constant--and exhausting--endeavors...