Word: preventive
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...campaign finance once again is an excellent example. Republicans and journalists are frustrated by the public's failure to rise in outrage at the daily drips of evidence that Clinton Administration figures may have broken various interpretations of the law. Maybe one reason is that these laws attempting to prevent political activity by politicians in political institutions, at least as interpreted by those flogging the scandal, seem to be a strange stew of unenforceable ideals and pointless distinctions...
...Hale-Bopp, an estimated 20 miles across, is bigger than most. (Halley's was less than half as large.) Its history is another. Out in deep space, a comet can get encrusted with a layer of gummy dust. This layer can seal in most of the ice and prevent it from vaporizing. Some gas may spurt out through cracks in the crust, giving a comet a premature air of greatness that amounts to not much...
Penn said that "there are more rigorous efforts now than there were 30 or 40 years ago" to prevent bias in the test...
Hard, perhaps, but not impossible. If anything will prevent human cloning--whether of dictator, industrialist or baby daughter--from becoming a reality, it's that science may not be able to clear the ethical high bar that would allow basic research to get under way in the first place. Cutting, coring and electrically jolting a sheep embryo is a huge moral distance from doing the same to a human embryo. It took 277 trials and errors to produce Dolly the sheep, creating a cellular body count that would look like sheer carnage if the cells were human. "Human beings ought...
...America wakes up to MORNING-AFTER PILLS. The FDA has okayed the use of megadoses of ordinary birth-control pills, taken within 72 hours of sex, to prevent pregnancy. The regimen, which is 75% effective, is already widely used in Europe...