Word: prevented
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Could there be a pill to prevent cancer? Since the 1970s, experiments with lab animals and studies of cancer rates in different countries have suggested that certain vitamins or related compounds could at least lower the risk of getting some forms of the disease. That evidence has prompted a series of large trials in humans to see if these substances can throw a shield around potential cancer victims...
...Peninsula council member Chris G.Vergonis '92 said that the only way the Collegecould prevent wholesale theft of magazines in thefuture was to punish the student involved withthis month's incident...
Reforms instituted by the Government Department last spring to prevent a shortage of thesis advisors appears to have paid off, the department's head tutor said this week...
...attempt to prevent an outbreak of measles on campus, University Health Services has reinnoculated 800 undergraduates this fall...
Mossad, the Israeli spy service, still commands high respect for its intelligence operations, even if it no longer enjoys the reputation of its early days. But one thing that has changed not at all is its aversion to publicity. Last week Israel went to extraordinary -- and unsuccessful -- lengths to prevent the U.S. publication of a book by a former agent that claims to reveal the service's secrets. In the process, it turned a somewhat dubious book that would probably have been of interest only to intelligence buffs into a best seller, while giving front-page publicity to some...