Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clearly MONICA LEWINSKY needn't have worried that her all too public travails would prevent her from ever securing another date. Last week alone she accompanied two very different men to two very high-profile functions. While attending a post-Oscar party with lawyer Jonathan Marshall, Lewinsky met Best Actor nominee SIR IAN MCKELLEN...
...nearly 35 million people around the world now living with HIV, there may never be a cure. Once cells are infected with HIV, it's excruciatingly difficult--perhaps impossible--to rid them of the virus. The only sure way to stop the epidemic is to prevent infection in the first place, and only a vaccine can do that...
...pressurized gondola for a round-the-world balloon attempt, a rigid winglike sail for an America's Cup winner, GM's Ultralight show car and the X-38 NASA crew-return vehicle. He is now testing his most exotic craft yet, the asymmetrical twin-engined Boomerang, designed to prevent instability should one engine fail. And he has set his sights on the $10 million X-PRIZE for the first private spaceship to carry three passengers to sub-orbital altitude, land safely and return to space twice within two weeks...
Cooking would never be the same. Within a year, Raytheon had introduced the first commercial microwave oven--a clunky, 750-lb. thing that required plumbing to prevent overheating but that managed nonetheless to do the job: heat food by electromagnetically stimulating the water, fat and sugar molecules within it. It was 20 years before Amana introduced a household model, and even then consumers--fearing everything from sterility to brain damage from the unfortunately named "Radarange"--gave the gadget a pass...
With the lid blown off of the academic dishonesty that everyone on the inside was already aware of, and with nothing to prevent a school from shrugging off any pretense of academic standards in its admission of "students" who might incidentally help its basketball team, college hoops sits on the verge of crisis. Change must happen, and it will...