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You are on earth. There is no cure for that.

22 December, 1989

Remembering Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989), winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, who died on this day in 1989 at the age of 83. https://youtu.be/SpgOcWZHEcY

A key figure in what English theatre critic and scholar Martin Esslin called the “Theatre of the Absurd,” Beckett’s work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence. It is often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, which became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

Among his masterpieces are ‘Waiting for Godot’ (first published in English in 1954, and performed in 1955), ‘Endgame’ (1957) and ‘Happy Days’ (1962).

How the Global Push to Avert a Broader War in Lebanon Fell Apart

Diplomats from the U.S., France and the U.N. thought both sides supported a call for a truce. Then Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader.

As poetry does, dementia demands that its audience, skittering along impatiently in daily life, pause and be — another loathsome word — present; alert to new associations, resistant to old grievances. It is a mystery, and a saga, a tragedy with glimmers of comedy that has inspired at least one great modern play: Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Waverly Gallery,” which in its 2018 revival showcased the great Elaine May.

Until there’s a pill to definitively forestall the fog, what can one say but let there be literature?

Walk, Jog or Dance: It’s All Good for the Aging Brain
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

New evidence that physical activity can forestall the mental decline in aging brains.

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Palestinians gathered leaflets dropped from an Israeli plane. The leaflets urged residents to stay away from Hamas militants.CreditHatem Moussa/Associated Press

'Let's try common sense," President Obama said in the State of the Union address, provoking a spontaneous burst of laughter in the House of Representatives chamber. The unintended humor exposes an important truth about Washington: Everyone knows that won't happen.
More troubling, however, was that the president's speech revealed why common sense is nonexistent. Mr. Obama wants new laws to tell us how to do things better—when the need is to overhaul old laws to restore freedom of choice and individual responsibility. Up and down the chain of authority, the accumulation of law and entitlements precludes sensible decisions.

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Prevention better than cure for swine flu

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Governments are hoping to nip swine flu in the bud

Governments around the world are still deciding how best to deal with the outbreak of swine flu. Several have banned imports of pork and some have suspended flights to Mexico. And the UK has mounted a public health information campaign on a scale not seen for decades

forestall 

Pronunciation: /fɔːˈstɔːl/ 

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking advance action:they will present their resignations to forestall a vote of no confidence

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1.1Act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something:he would have spoken but David forestalled him

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1.2historical Buy up (goods) in order to profit by an enhanced price.

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forestaller

NOUN

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forestalment

NOUN

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Origin

Old English foresteall 'an ambush' (see fore- and stall). As a verb the earliest sense (Middle English) was 'intercept and buy up goods before they reach the market, so as to raise the price' (formerly an offence).

prevent

v., -vent·ed, -vent·ing, -vents. v.tr.

1. To keep from happening: took steps to prevent the strike.
2. To keep (someone) from doing something; impede: prevented us from winning.
3. Archaic. To anticipate or counter in advance.
4. Archaic. To come before; precede.

v.intr.
To present an obstacle: There will be a picnic if nothing prevents.

[Middle English preventen, to anticipate, from Latin praevenīre, praevent- : prae-, pre- + venīre, to come.]

preventability pre·vent'a·bil'i·ty or pre·vent'i·bil'i·ty n.
preventable pre·vent'a·ble or pre·vent'i·ble adj.
preventer pre·vent'er n.

SYNONYMS prevent, preclude, avert, obviate, forestall. These verbs mean to stop or hinder something from happening, especially by advance planning or action. Prevent implies anticipatory counteraction: “The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it” (John Randolph). To preclude is to exclude the possibility of an event or action: “a tranquillity which . . . his wife's presence would have precluded” (John Henry Newman). To avert is to ward off something about to happen: The pilot's quick thinking averted an accident. Obviate implies that something, such as a difficulty, has been anticipated and disposed of effectively: “the objections . . . having . . . been obviated in the preceding chapter” (Joseph Butler). Forestall usually suggests anticipatory measures taken to counteract, neutralize, or nullify the effects of something: We installed an alarm system to forestall break-ins.