Word: protectiveness
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...appears to be utterly unaware of the commitment to students that has led my Economics Department colleagues and the university administration to remain silent about this affair. There are strict rules governing the privacy of students with respect to medical and administrative matters. These rules, which are intended to protect vulnerable individuals, make it impossible to discuss the reasons why, to quote your article, the former student “said she was required to take an involuntary medical leave of absence on Aug. 9, 2007, and was required to withdraw from GSAS at the Aug. 31 Administrative Board meeting...
...dismantled, which could take now until 2040, because obviously it takes a while to take them apart, without blowing yourself up. Our argument is that it’s better for security not to have a large number of nukes around that we can’t protect...
...Thai study is already a winner in that researchers now have a population of patients who are protected against infection with HIV after inoculation; they can begin to analyze the patients' immune responses more closely to tease out the elusive factors that shielded them from HIV. That's more than the last promising vaccine provided. That candidate, made by Merck, not only failed to protect volunteers from infection but also seemed to increase their risk of contracting...
...released a special QualysGuard module in April 2008 to achieve this objective. After a series of acquisitions this summer, an improved version will probably be forthcoming in the next 12 to 18 months. "Because of the Internet, the enterprise network is disappearing, and companies need to be ready to protect what's left," Courtot forecasts. Security as a service, it turns out, is a pretty legit business...
...solution: a new type of insurance. Retirement savings, it turns out, are exactly the type of asset we need insurance for. We need insurance to protect against risks we can't predict (when the market collapses) and can't afford to recover from on our own. "People tend to meld savings and insurance in their mind, but they are not substitutes," says Nancy Altman, a former Harvard professor and the author of The Battle for Social Security. "It's fine to have a savings plan as a supplement but not as the main retirement protection for everyone." She says...