Word: canals
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...liquid nucleus that absorbs compression. The layers of the annulus are woven for maximum absorption. But it doesn't take much to tear this basket. "You can tear the annulus with no more than 3[degrees] of sudden loaded rotation," Watkins says. "If the disk ruptures into the spinal canal, it can injure the sciatic nerves that run down to the legs." Couples once likened the resulting pain to "a hand grenade going off in my back." Facet joints are more prone to arthritic changes and to producing bone spurs that narrow the spinal canal...
...MILK? Root-canal specialists say there's an easy way to help save a tooth that gets knocked out. Put it in a glass of milk. Milk keeps a tooth alive by nourishing cells on the root. You still need to rush to the dentist, though. Milk can preserve a tooth for only so long--about an hour...
...catch a busy student's eye, and campus posters are a remarkable testament to the fickle passions of the student spirit. Some posters, usually ads for sketchy shared apartments ("Seeking female roommate who loves rottweilers"), psychological experiments ("Are you manic-depressive?") or surveys at the Dental School ("Free Root Canal!") tend to stay up for decades. Others have half-lives around 40 minutes, like advertisements for the endless stream of speeches given by political has-beens, or the even more endless stream of a cappella jams with names that never get old--including "Jambidextrous," "Jambivalent," "Jamnesia," "Jamaica," "Jamputation," "Jamphetamines," "Jamniocentesis...
Things aren't so special anymore for Ethan and Tom. They're in the county jail, where if you need a root canal, as Ethan did last month, your lawyer has to file a three-page motion. In November, a year after Rustica, Ethan pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery and promised to apologize to victims in all 20. Now 19 years old, he will spend 8 1/2 years in prison...
...Panama Canal, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, opens to commercial traffic...