Word: preventative
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...includes the right to buy a rifle in a supermarket. But it's not only Europeans -- and others who outlaw the private ownership of weapons -- who lay the blame at the door of America's uniquely libertarian gun laws. Gun control understandably becomes a mantra for Americans seeking to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy. After all, many societies face problems of youth violence; while it doesn't address the root causes of that violence, making weapons inaccessible effectively contains the damage. "Youth violence is on the rise across Europe," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton...
Administrators have maintained a vow of secrecyin the last few weeks in efforts to prevent newsof the deal from leaking before a fullannouncement. In addition, Radcliffe sent morethan 30,000 individual letters announcing the dealto its alumnae yesterday morning
...unpleasant days and nights ahead. Don't panic, though, if you're still not happy with your topic by the summer before your senior year. Excepting theses that require summer research or long-term planning, it is feasible to radically change your topic until well into senior fall. To prevent the need to switch, though...
...widely heralded but still experimental cancer-fighting compound may be used someday to prevent two other major killers of Americans: heart disease and stroke. That was the implication of a remarkable report published last week in the journal Circulation by a team of researchers from Dr. Judah Folkman's laboratory at the Children's Hospital in Boston...
Great plays are not always easy to sit through. Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh runs nearly 4 1/2 hours, has a garrulous first act that could try the patience of saints, and hammers home its point about "pipe dreams"--the illusions that prevent people from facing the bleak realities of their lives--so many times that you might want to take a lead pipe to the author. Yet at least once a generation, theatergoers deserve a chance to immerse themselves in this oceanic masterpiece. This time it's an inspired...