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This is a book with bite. Dentistry: an Illustrated History by Malvin E. Ring, D.D.S. (Abrams; 320 pages; $75) ranges through time and twinges from the Maya Indians, who used tooth implants almost 1,400 years ago, to the latest microelectric techniques. What might have been a waiting-room time killer becomes instead a lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor...
...Sanctions with bite clearly have influence," Schwartz said when asked about divestment...
MOST POLITICIANS ARE more or less in agreement over the gravity of the present damage and future threat posed by our burgeoning federal budget deficit. Unfortunately, a majority of Capitol Hill lawmakers refuse to bite the bullet and raise taxes while reigning in the government's massive defense appropriations. Instead, they are well on the road to taking a politically adept but cowardly exit from the crisis...
...gentic reasons, surely, many New Yorkers are unable to deal with this fact. They moan and cry and point to population indicators by whose standards Shanghai is the center of the universe. They bite their grimy nails and refer to the rest of the country as "the provinces...
After the Bruin goal, however, the game's biggest offensive star was a dog that bounded onto the field, joined the fray, executed a snazzy breakaway and proceeded to bite the ball voraciously...