Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: N.Y.C. cabbies OCCUPATION: Tolerating rude passengers FIRST PUNCH: Five taxi drivers sped past as Glover and his daughter tried to hail a cab in Harlem; a driver who did stop tried to prevent the 6-ft. 4-in. actor from sitting in the front seat, which has more legroom...
...tools back and forth along a thin cable strung 19 ft. above the ground, her friends wait for a chance to take a spin. Meanwhile they get an impromptu physics lesson from a guide on how the counterweight and gravity keep the unstable vehicle in equilibrium and prevent their friend from tumbling over...
...peckii needs excellent vision in order to prevent its own extinction. "Sex pheromones from females probably help males locate the general neighborhood of a wasp," says Ehmer. But the male, who lives less than 6 hrs. after taking flight, must rely on his eyesight to zero in quickly on that wasp and its female parasite so he can perpetuate his species before he expires...
Last week Real released a patch on its website to prevent users' personal IDs from being transmitted; you can download it from www.real.com or wait for the next version of RealJukebox. Meanwhile, the company is undergoing an internal privacy-policy review, and an outside auditor will be brought in for a final seal of good privacy housekeeping. But right now, there's a log file somewhere in Seattle that has my name in it, as well as the Allan Sherman CDs that I've been playing, and that ticks me off. If a good company like Glaser...
...kids enter high school, parents worry that mediocre grades may shut them out of top colleges, which may prevent them from getting fulfilling jobs that pay well. Those are legitimate fears, says Frances Schoonmaker, an associate professor at Teachers College in New York City, "but so far in this country, we still have doors people can take advantage of even if they don't have high grades." Families struggling with less than stellar report cards may take comfort in the knowledge that straight A's are often looked on as potentially problematic. A flawless record can be a sign that...