Word: preventive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...newspapers carried lurid tales of violent drunkenness. Today news stories offer grim accounts of high school parties that end in gruesome wrecks and of college kids killing themselves by consuming, say, 100 shots in as many minutes. Last year the Surgeon General issued a "call to action" to prevent underage drinking; the National Institutes of Health issued a similar...
Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock says the company doesn't condone iPhone porn distribution and will ban adult content from official applications, just as it has restricted adult content in the podcast section of the Apple store. But it can't prevent customers from accessing porn through the device's browser. Indeed, the new iPhone may eventually propel mobile porn deeper into the sphere of interactivity. Blogger Jason Swifter has already imagined one such scenario. "I wish there was an application that allowed you to undress people by dragging your fingers across the screen and literally dragging it off," he wrote...
...Internal government memos also showed that a high-ranking military lawyer at Guantanamo sought to prevent the International Committee of the Red Cross, which periodically visited the detention facility to monitor the treatment of prisoners, from discovering some of the techniques used against them...
...England didn't make it to this Euro, since its team is so awful. That didn't prevent the English from sending an awful referee, so here was Howard Webb handing Austria an unwarranted lifeline via a ridiculous penalty call deep into injury time in its game against Poland. Webb whistled Mariusz Lewandowski for a shirt pull in the box as players jostled each other before a free kick, and Ivica Vastic dispatched the spot kick to make it 1-1. Lewandowski was doing what he and every other defender had been doing their whole professional lives...
Looking beyond the election: Assuming that Mugabe rigs the vote and wins or that you win but the military tries to prevent you from taking power, what do you plan to do? Well, our plan is always to fight on. It is not a defeatist attitude, and anyone who suggests that we are going to give up because the military has refused us power, that we will just give up and forget about it - we will not do that. We will isolate the regime until they realize that what they are doing is unsustainable. So the struggle continues...