Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California woman won the right Tuesday to continue her undergraduate studies at Harvard, after winning a custody battle with the father of her 10-month-old daughter in which he attempted to prevent her from moving...
...major causes of this gulf is the clannishness exhibited by adherents of the particular disciplines involved. In the manner of medieval guilds, these individual fields of study often seem to erect barriers to prevent anyone who is not actually concentrating in the subject from learning anything about it. Hence the two year long introductory track in Physics, and hence the seemingly incomprehensible post-Kantian meta-ethically relativist vocabulary of some literature classes. Obviously, every field has its own rhetoric and its own intellectual prerequisites, but in many cases these are probably more impenetrable than they need...
Based on documents she obtained, Harbury said she thinks Everardo was tortured for one year, drugged by military doctors and kept in a full body cast to prevent his escape before he was murdered...
...research to identify people at risk of mental illness. There is just too much normal variation in the sizes of the structures within the brain. But this latest finding should help researchers understand exactly what goes wrong when the brain is overwhelmed by hopelessness and, perhaps one day, help prevent the millions of Americans who may have inherited a propensity to depression from falling into the downward spiral of despair...
...Vitamin C to the rescue--again? Early findings suggest that one large dose (2 g) of vitamin C may help prevent or reduce the severity of an ASTHMA attack brought on by exercise...