Word: shields
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...their successes could not shield him fully from the discrimination endemic to the South in the 1930s...
...programs to block the porn that's awash on the Internet, so why not a filter for the websites that are racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic? That's the idea behind the Anti-Defamation League's new HateFilter, a $30 program (available at adl.org designed to help parents shield their children from sites sponsored by groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation. Shading their eyes from hate, however, won't make it go away...
NASA is taking no chances. It will power down any threatened spacecraft to avoid short circuits and will temporarily orient each one, says Riegler, "so that its strongest side faces the incoming Leonids." Even the Hubble Space Telescope will turn its back to the meteoroids, to shield the aperture through which it scans the heavens. And the flat solar panels that energize most of the satellites will be turned edge on to the Leonid stream to minimize the possibility of impact...
According to the UHS Insurance Office, Harvard students are not required to join UHS's Blue Cross/Blue Shield health plan if they already have compatible insurance that covers Massachusetts state health requirements...
Critics have alleged that the research on agingis a shield for a NASA publicity effort thatrewards Glenn for his political support ofPresident Clinton...