Word: counteractivity
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...plead with Ben-Gurion for some kind of formal working partnership between the Jews of Israel and Jews in other countries before it is too late and both die spiritually. Failure of this partnership would be calamitous for Israel and catastrophic for the Jews of the Diaspora. "Israel must counteract by its existence the silent process of assimilation. What made Eastern Jewry so powerful and creative was not its theoretical adherence to Jewish religion and Jewish culture but the fact that it had implemented the Talmud in its daily life. Such reality of ideas can now be provided to Diaspora...
...Dr.Wolff: "A train passes too quickly for us to find out anything about it while it is moving. To derail the train is a violent method, but this gives us a chance to study parts of the mechanism." He hopes that his tortured eggs will teach physicians how to counteract prenatal infections which sometimes result in the birth of defective children. As the world moves deeper into the atomic age, there is increasing danger to human embryos from radiation. Dr. Wolff's experiments may lead to discoveries which will minimize the effects of such radiation on generations yet unborn...
...seeing places which are the most up-to-date of their kind in Europe; there is nothing more depressing ... In the world of today, which is as it is, slackness and corruption are often the saving graces of humanity and take the place of kindness and charity, and mercifully counteract the horrors of efficiency...
DRANO (caustic soda): drink lots of water or milk, counteract the alkali with a weak acid such as diluted vinegar, lemon or orange juice...
...Blue babies. The Blalock-Taussig operation, with later modifications, is relatively safe but does not correct the underlying defects; it merely seeks to counteract them by adding an abnormal blood shunt. Young enthusiasts believe that an effort should be made to correct the abnormalities (open the pulmonary valve, close the interventricular defect and thus correct the overriding of the aorta). But deaths during and soon after operations of this type, with the heart-lung machine...