Word: preventive
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...latest attempt to prevent 1984 comes from within the scientific field's own ranks. Stuart Newman, a cellular biologist at the New York Medical Center in Valhalla and a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, is afraid that the current technology has advanced far enough to make possible the creation of new species from human and animal DNA. He fears that such creatures would be nearly human but created for and sold into scientific slavery...
...prevent this, Newman has applied for a patent on a process to create human/animal genetically mixed creatures (chimeras) in order to prevent anyone else from pursuing such research. He also hopes to provoke a debate on the sanctity of life and where society should draw the line on genetic research...
Trying to access these funds for cur-rent use is often a headache for Harvard's financial braintrust, and one of the main tasks of Development Office staff is to prevent the possibility that current gifts may become outdated...
Needle exchange programs distribute clean needles to drug users to prevent addicts from passing AIDS through contaminated needles. National statistics, with which both Shalala and protesters agreed, show that every day 33 men, women and children get AIDS through the use of dirty needles...
Lewis asserted that a smoking ban might encourage some smokers to quit and possibly prevent non-smokers from lighting up for the first time...