Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...that we've identified the problems with spring break, is there any way to prevent them from happening...
...that we've identified the problems with spring break, is there any way to prevent them from happening...
...young women [THE SEXES, March 1], you said some of the statements in the book seem naive. As a 45-year-old man, I beg to differ with you. Shalit doesn't seem naive to me. She exposes the emperor as having no clothes. Codes of conduct to prevent sexual harassment are obviously better than lawsuits after the fact. And although conservative writer Katie Roiphe complains about being "condescended to by a 23-year-old virgin," she deserves such treatment. The younger generation has paid its dues simply by surviving the mess we've left them in. Any woman...
That time can be well used. Satellite operators who know a cme storm front is coming can briefly shut their systems off to prevent short-circuiting. Earth-based power grids can be temporarily--if expensively--reconfigured to provide extra grounding. Astronauts planning a space walk can stay indoors until the danger passes. "Each sigmoid is like a loaded gun," says solar researcher Alphonse Sterling, who helped make the discovery. Now, it seems, humanity may have a better chance of dodging the bullet...