Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, companies have been working toward onboard warning systems to prevent mid-air collisions, which are often the result of visual illusions that lead pilots astray. Last month the Air Transport Association announced that development of a practical, economical device is "now closer to realization than at any time in the past." The promising system is McDonnell Aircraft's "Eros" (for Eliminate Range System), which will beep a warning to pilots when two planes get on a collision course. It will also instruct pilots-by means of arrows on the instrument panel -which way to turn to avoid trouble...
...exit door is and how it works, where his life jacket is, and what position to fold into in the unlikely event of a crash landing (head on knees, arms locked around legs). He should keep his safety belt buckled throughout the flight, as most pilots do; it can prevent a bad injury in case the plane hits sudden turbulence. The common belief that seats in the tail are safer than those up front has a little basis in fact, but the passenger can do better by sitting close to an emergency exit. Above all, he should swallow his shyness...
Virtually all U.S. dentists now agree that the best way to prevent tooth decay is to fluoridate water supplies so that children get the benefits from the time their tooth buds begin to form-only a few weeks after conception. Failing that, many dentists paint stronger fluoride solutions on children's teeth once or twice a year. Adults, with their fully developed teeth, have seemed beyond fluorides' help-destined to suffer the traditional "find the cavity, then drill and fill...
...year. The first treatment costs only 25? a man for materials; dental technicians are treating three or four times as many patients as before, and the Navy expects soon to make a big dent in its huge backlog of cavities, treating 1,000,000 patients a year at 48 preventive-dentistry centers. Says Rear Admiral Frank M. Kyes, chief of the Navy's dental services: "It now takes us less time to prevent cavities than to fill them...
...A.M.A., is a thermometer that will not cause injury. But no U.S. manufacturer has yet produced a safer thermometer at an economic price. A safer design, used in Scandinavia, has a slender sensing tip, similar to the American, but then broadens out to a flat shank, thick enough to prevent too deep a penetration. The best the A.M.A. can suggest is that nurses and mothers be instructed in how to insert a thermometer correctly, and told never to leave a child or a debilitated patient alone with the thermometer in place...