Word: preventive
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...often, incidents surrounded by a mysterious cloud of latent anti-Semitic prevent the accuser from filing formal charges. In this case, while many facts may forever remain unclear, the motive behind Rosenbaum's murder is not: he was killed first and foremost because he was Jewish. This is all the more startling given the crime was perpetrated in the last decade of 20th century America and not in turn-of-the-century Europe...
...based on race, ethnicity or gender, civil libertarians fear that people of Middle Eastern origin in particular will be singled out. "The proposed profiling system is invasive of privacy and likely to be discriminatory," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Gregory Nojeim. He argued that airlines can only prevent a terrorist from checking a bomb and then skipping the flight by matching every bag to its owner: "The airlines have prevailed on this commission not to go to full luggage match because they don't want to pay for it." Maybe so, but passengers are also likely to rebel when...
Military authorities insist that they will do all they can to prevent such hazing in the future. "If they think that the leadership of the Marine Corps believes that beating on their fellow Marine makes for a better warrior, they'd better find themselves a new occupation," said an angry General Charles Krulak, commander of the 174,000-strong Marine Corps. The new Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, declared himself "disturbed and disgusted" by the hazing and was forced to devote much of his very first Pentagon press conference to the stabbing scandal...
GREENSBORO, North Carolina: Fighting for the future of an industry under increasing fire, the nation's largest tobacco companies began arguments in a lawsuit designed to prevent the FDA from regulating tobacco as a drug. Lawyers for R.J. Reynolds, Phillip Morris and a number of other tobacco companies were in court to block new FDA rules, scheduled to go take effect on February 28, that would severely limit cigarette advertising aimed at teenagers. Terming the FDA restrictions a violation of the First Amendment and a prime case of federal overreach, lawyers want Judge William Osteen, a onetime tobacco industry lobbyist...
Some of the more unusual groups include the Wizard of AIDS, a theater group that attempts to educate high school students about AIDS and methods to prevent the spread...