Word: stave
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...with a deeper understanding of the hundreds of compounds found in food, investigators have begun to tease apart some of the more complex interactions between your diet and your DNA. In the process, they hope eventually to give consumers more personalized advice about what to eat and drink to stave off heart disease, cancer and other chronic conditions of aging. "We are trying to put more science behind the nutrition," says Jose Ordovas, a geneticist at the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts. "We want to finally understand why nutrients do what they do and to whom...
...each other in the Dunkin’ Donuts, on the way to work. Unused warehouses and office space line some streets, but far more are filled with identical row houses, with children playing in cramped side yards. Neighbors hold conversations from their porches in good weather, fanning themselves to stave off the heat...
That doesn't mean, however, that popping vitamin E pills will stave off heart disease. Previous research had reached a split decision over whether supplementary E could guard against cardiovascular problems. But the study on postmenopausal women, one of the largest yet, concluded that the vitamin was protective only when eaten in foods; in pill form, it didn't seem to do much good at all. This result could mean that the vitamin works in tandem with some other, as yet unidentified, food-borne substance...
...cuts, increased defense spending, and the enactment of Medicare prescription drug benefits legislation ballooned our national debt during President George W. Bush’s first term in office, it became increasingly clear that our spending habits were unsustainable. Four increases of the national debt ceiling could not stave off the reality that something had to be sacrificed. And with that in mind, the House and Senate set about cutting federal programs, finally, in February, reaching a compromise—the compromise of America’s future...
...While the CIA is watching substantial duties and numbers of its analysts get shifted to offices under the DNI, the Pentagon has in some cases been better able to stave off such transfers. This suggests at least a partial victory for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who originally was reluctant to back the creation of Negroponte's office. Officials tell TIME that the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency has handed over far fewer analysts in response to Negroponte's call. The DIA director, Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, has insisted that because "we're at war," he can spare very few billets...