Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international health workers, 400 of whom were meeting in Geneva to discuss the World Health Organization's plans for a massive, ten-year effort to stamp out smallpox all around the globe. Western Europe and North America, WHO estimates, now spend $70 million a year on vaccinations to protect themselves against a disease that occurs nowhere within their borders. Why not allocate a fraction of this, $180 million over ten years, to exterminate the smallpox virus wherever it still flourishes? Then, the argument runs, many fewer vaccinations and revaccinations would be needed...
...believe fully in the government's right to interfere with my choice of neighbors; it is my personal preference for softball over Shakespeare that I wish to protect against the culture-mongers. Barney Frank
...deferment does not protect Education per se; rather it protects the privilege of some to get an education. Abolishing the 2-S would not abolish education. It would merely mean that present non-students would have a chance to fill the places and use the scholarship funds of those students who are drafted. The "national interest" in education would be preserved; only the special interest of those now receiving that education would be removed...
Antibodies, the human defense mechanisms which normally fight disease, may actually protect certain types of deadly cancer cells, according to a study published recently by Dr. Kurt J. Bloch, associate in Medicine...
Bloch found that by exposing cancer cells from a mouse to guinea pig antibodies, he could protect the malignant growths from the guinea pig's other defenses. Although he focused his study on a single type of cancer, he said yesterday that the results "could apply equally well to a whole host of tumors in animals...