Word: preventive
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...Action has focused its efforts on education to let students know how to prevent...
...group has collaborated with UHS and other organizations to make mousepads that explain "the prayer stretch"--which stretches the wrist to prevent strain--and other tips for RSI prevention...
President Clinton says it should be different this time. The inspectors, he said last week, "must be able to proceed with their work without interference, to find, to destroy, to prevent Iraq from rebuilding nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." But that is what Saddam agreed to after his defeat in 1991, so no one can assume he means it this time. The U.S. does have the muscle in place in the gulf to hit Saddam with bombs and missiles if he does not comply with U.N. orders. Washington says it will wait and see. But is Clinton ready to bomb...
Scientists first became interested in designer estrogens in the early 1990s. While studying a powerful new anticancer drug called tamoxifen, which works by blocking estrogen's ability to stimulate breast tissue, they discovered that it also helped prevent osteoporosis. The drug seemed to act like an estrogen in the bone but an anti-estrogen in the breast. Unfortunately, it also acted like an estrogen in the uterus, dramatically increasing the risk of uterine cancer. So researchers set out to find a chemical cousin of tamoxifen that would be easier on the uterus...
...also going to become as bland and tedious as television? There's no word yet on which sites will get the Disney seal of approval, or whether news sites will receive special dispensation from Walt's boys to speak as freely as necessary. "Filtering mechanisms prevent children from obtaining a great deal of useful and appropriate information," says a new report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They should know ? in tests on engines not unlike Disney's, searches for, say, "American Red Cross" blocked 90 percent of all sites mentioning the name...