Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With chants of "M-V-P" raining down on Tim Duncan from the largest crowed in the NBA this season, the Spurs played an inspired fourth quarter and defeated Utah 84-78 to prevent the Jazz from clinching the conference...
...City police commissioner William Bratton. The Washington-based group's four-point plan is touchingly well meaning: 1) give kids something to do after school; 2) make sure young children have access to quality child care; 3) help schools identify troubled kids early and provide counseling for them; 4) prevent child abuse...
...answer. It isn't even the question. NATO's problem is not which means to use, it is a confusion of purpose. There will be no durable solution in Kosovo or elsewhere in the Balkans while Serbia's regional self-assertion persists undiminished. Asked how he would prevent a resurgent Germany from seeking once again to dominate Europe, Charles de Gaulle answered simply, "By war." The conclusion applies equally well to Serbia. RICHARD HART SINNREICH Lawton, Okla...
Just because the new brood is not her own doesn't prevent the stepmother from taking on substantial maternal responsibilities. "Because of the way they've been socialized, and because of social expectations, typically women have more pressure put on them in stepfamilies to parent and to take care of the kids," says James Bray, a clinical psychologist who did a nine-year study of stepfamilies that was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Meanwhile, the first wife may be antagonistic toward her successor. These factors place a heavy burden on the new family. About 55% of second marriages...
...perform a biopsy when the results of a mammogram are ambiguous. The device, called T-Scan 2000, sends a tiny jolt of electricity to suspicious breast tissue; potentially malignant cells conduct electricity differently than normal cells do. T-Scan is not meant to replace a mammogram, but it may prevent some 200,000 unnecessary biopsies a year...