Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to identify successful minority students, encourage them and help to remove any obstacles that would prevent them from accepting and matriculating," McCarthy said...
Rawlins says the referendum would prevent what she calls attempts by council representatives to "[ignore] the opinion of the student body...
...script by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, the Enterprise is sailing through space, with its Frisbee contours and fabulous tail fins, toward mop-up duty in the Federation's war against its ugliest nemesis. The Borg are flying back to the 21st century to prevent the first rendezvous between humans and benevolent extraterrestrials, then to "assimilate" all earthlings and turn them into crusty, cranky robots. Picard, who has been denied active duty for the very reason he needs to fight--because of his earlier assimilation by the Borg--disobeys orders and, y'know, saves the galaxy...
...caesarean delivery, during which the frail Cheyenne wailed as lustily as any other newborn. "I wanted her to keep crying so I knew she was alive," says her mother Alberta. Cheyenne soon grew still, however, as doctors lowered her temperature to less than 63[degrees]F to prevent neurological damage during the critical period after her own heart was removed and before her new, golf ball-size heart was in place. Not until the patient reached this state of suspended animation was it safe to make the surgical swap...
Cheyenne's initial prognosis is good: doctors give her an 80% chance of survival. But throughout her entire life she will depend on immunosuppressant drugs to prevent organ rejection. What matters most to her family, however, is that she will have that life...