Word: preventing
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Fetterman said that although Med School administrators considered the trip too dangerous to take responsibility for it, they did not try to prevent the group from going. "We had to respect student and faculty intelligence. We knew they would go anyway," he said...
Assistant Professor of Economics Lawrence B.Lindsey, the head section leader for SocialAnalysis 10, "Principles of Economics," said thenew deadline would also help his course, which wasthe second largest at Harvard last semester.Lindsey said the changes will help him findappropriate classrooms earlier than usual nextfall and will prevent students from falling behindin the course...
...prevent such abuses, doctors and ethicists suggest banning the sale of fetal tissue worldwide and prohibiting women from designating who would receive their fetus' organs. Once such safeguards are in place, however, they believe that physicians can properly use tissue from abortuses for research and treatment. Except in the case of miscarriages, Dr. John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee, vehemently disagrees. "The abuse is not in the sale of those tissues," he says, "but in killing the baby in the first place." Janice Raymond, professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
...dumping the entire pupil population of New York City, biggest in the U.S., onto the nation's trash heap every year. Very few ever drop back in. Most of the others are lost forever, not only to the school system but to society at large. The battle to prevent those losses has never been more difficult. Old-style pedagogy simply does not work when the climate both inside and outside the schoolhouse is one of paralyzing despair. Inner-city educators speak of a "ghetto mentality," in which very little is expected of students -- by parents, teachers and others. Students quickly...
...containment booms and absorbent booms to soak up the oil and prevent it from entering the water," said Myles E. Brown, the spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering. "We won't know the full impact of the spill until the reports are in, but it seems that the environmental impacts will be minimal...