Word: prompt
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...months-long flirtation between Riegel’s character and Maggie was enough to prompt the creation of a fan group called BAM (“Bianca and Maggie”), which attempted to convince the soap to push the relationship toward intimacy...
These bacterial molecules prompt the cells to release a protein called interferon, which alerts the immune system to possible microbial invaders. A precursor of these molecules is found...
...Hong Kong's "bird flu" was a virus that was part human, part avian. Much luck, hard scientific labor and prompt containment measures prevented that outbreak from turning into a global catastrophe. Next time we might not be so fortunate. Medical records dating back to the 18th century show waves of influenza rolling westward from Asia through Russia into Europe with disturbing regularity. Three or four times a century, a pandemic spreads from flu's heartland. So statistically speaking, since the last reassorted strain emerged in Hong Kong in 1968, we're due for another...
...Prompt action by local health authorities can nip an outbreak in the bud, saving lives and billions of dollars. "When you confront new diseases and they begin to travel widely, you have to do everything you can to try to stop the transmission," says World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Dick Thompson. "Maximum efforts in the beginning are justified." Although doctors and scientists decline to point fingers, it's increasingly clear that the Hong Kong government failed to recognize the potential threat when SARS first surfaced and downplayed its impact to avoid panic and bad publicity. As a result, the virus...
...despite the challenge filed by an anonymous Harvard undergraduate. The student argued that Harvard’s policy—which as of last spring was worded to require the claimant to provide “sufficient independent corroboration”—discriminated against women, denying prompt and equitable recourse to students who experienced sexual assault...