Word: preventive
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Specifically, her work involves using thescientific method to examine programs and policiesthat prevent cancer in each of these ways,Sorensen said...
...Wednesday the deadly virus again served notice that it is more than equal to the fight. A San Francisco man has a strain of AIDS that resists six of the 11 retrovirus-fighting drugs currently available, including -- and this is the scary part -- protease inhibitors, which are supposed to prevent the AIDS virus from being transmitted...
...surprising that India and Pakistan are not being severely punished for exploding their nuclear devices [WORLD, June 8]. The gravest threat of nuclear war is shaping up in South Asia without the international community's working together to try to prevent it. India's government is even winning applause at home from those who confuse military might with self-esteem. MOHAMMED ABDULLAH Lawrenceville...
Hawley said that as the space shuttle struggles to overcome the earth's gravity, the body pumps more blood into the upper half of the body than usual in order to prevent it from pooling in the lower half...
...that both India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, the U.N. should enforce mandates that will prevent a nuclear confrontation between these two irrationally aggressive neighbors [WORLD, May 25]. Sanctions will not work--indeed, both countries had already weighed this consequence before recklessly pressing ahead with their nuclear preparations. What is needed to bring India and Pakistan to their senses is the threat of a multinational action that could end in a pre-emptive military strike against their nuclear-bomb making facilities. That would save us all from having nuclear war erupt over the Kashmir issue or some other jingoistic dispute...