Word: preventing
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Freshmen this year will not have the chance to request either the Yard or the Quad, but have been assigned on a purely random basis. A spokesman for the freshman dean's office said this is an effort to prevent the dissatisfaction provided by getting something you didn't ask for, and maybe it will. There are people who have been miserable in both the Yard and the Quad, whether they asked for them or not--and there are people in each who say they wouldn't have lived anywhere else. Each area--the Quad and the Yard and River...
...next few weeks as coaches start preseason drills to get their teams into shape. The irony, says Dr. James P. Knochel, a kidney-disease expert from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Dallas, is that these incidents are unnecessary. Heat stroke, he writes in the A.M.A. Journal, can be prevented if coaches and trainers use common sense and remember that active athletes must sweat in order to cool off and must quickly replace the fluid they lose. "Would the coaches operate their automobiles with half-full radiators?" asks Knochel. "The trouble is, the radiator in the car doesn't sweat...
...Attempt to improve players' performances with amphetamines. The drugs prevent a player from realizing when he is fatigued and assure that he will keep trying long after physical exhaustion dictates that he should quit...
...have for decades sought better ways to alleviate allergy symptoms, which include sneezing, shedding tears, itching and swelling. Now, after three years of work, Dr. Robert Hamburger, 52, of the University of California at San Diego, has synthesized a small molecule that interferes with the immune mechanism and helps prevent the discomforts of the allergic...
...success of Hamburger's preliminary experiments does not mean that a drug to prevent allergic reactions will soon be available. Extensive testing remains to be done. Hamburger estimates it will take at least six years...