Word: preventing
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This year's yield is the highest it has been in 25 years and will likely prevent the University from accepting anyone from the waiting list, according to a news release from the Office of Admissions and Financial...
...encounter two cloaked figures, Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), who are trying to prevent a war between the greedy Trade Federation and the small, peaceful planet of Naboo. Traveling along with the planet's teenaged queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) to appeal to the senate of the galactic republic, they pit-stop on the desert planet of Tatooine to make crucial repairs on their damaged ship...
...lines in debates over single-sex schools do not draw cleanly along conventional ideology. Similarly, many of the people calling for the death of Radcliffe rightly called themselves feminists. Was the lingering presence of Radcliffe beneficial to women undergraduates, or did it merely prevent Harvard from addressing problems of gender inequality sooner? Likewise, although the resurgent single-sex schools provide nurturing environments and self-esteem boosts for students in the short-term, how great is the long-term harm of postponing discussion of the problems that require such schools in the first place...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor who discovered that aspirin may help prevent heart attacks faces allegations that he sexually harassed more than a dozen women who worked under him, according to an article in the Boston Globe yesterday...
...BITE In order to prevent rogues from creating anti-Bush websites, George W. Bush has bought a hootenanny of URLs--60!--that send you to his main campaign website. Among them...