Word: stopgap
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...these methods are just stopgap solutions, since a full-fledged flu pandemic would kill millions of people before the vats made enough vaccine to meet demand. Ultimately, vaccine makers may need to go straight to the source: the flu virus' genetic code. By extracting snippets of viral RNA and transforming them into DNA strands, scientists can in theory create a template for antibodies that can ward off flu. Researchers at PowderMed in Oxford, England, have created a DNA cassette into which they can insert genes from whatever flu virus is going around and, they say, have a vaccine ready...
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...late in the season: base-running screw-ups, a desultory air permeating Fenway on a sultry day-even though the Yankees were in town. Game Four was this droning ballgame that you just knew we weren?t going to win. Wakefield goes nine, but gives up just enough homers. Stopgap Leiter holds the Sox just enough at bay. Sturtze, Gordon and Mo are able if not automatic. Blah, blah, blah...
...extensive renovation may be necessary. In the meantime, however, upgrading the MAC’s facilities seems to have satisfied students’ main concern—the dearth of workout machines. The new equipment is a vast improvement—even if it’s only a stopgap solution...
...Although your article correctly pointed to the booming human population and a failure to safeguard big cats in wildlife preserves as reasons for the cats' declining numbers, it neatly avoided a matter-of-fact discussion of the only solution that is not a mere stopgap: finding a way to curb the world's rapidly spiraling population-growth rate. Until we are able to control human overpopulation, any species that competes with Homo sapiens for space and food is doomed. Karla Kellenberger Stow...