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Please, the Rex cat does not look like a rat. If you must liken this unique animal to another, the Rex should be known as the greyhound or whippet of catdom. With its curly, nonshedding coat the Rex is a cat that people with allergies can often keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1981 | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...tooth can take three or four sittings. In bonding, there is no drilling, no anesthetic is used, and several teeth can be bonded during a single visit to the dentist. Diluted phosphoric acid is applied to the natural tooth, etching microscopic pores into the enamel. Next comes a coat of liquid plastic to seal the tooth. Then a paste composed of plastic and finely ground quartz, glass or silica is patted on in thin layers tinted to match the natural teeth and molded into the desired shape. After each layer is applied, it is exposed for up to 40 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Taking Stock of Bonding | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Webster was last seen November 28 in the baggage claim area at Logan Airport. She is 5-ft. 2-in. tall, weighs 122 pounds, has brown eyes and hair, and was last seen wearing a long brown coat, a black skirt, and a red blouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Depts. Have No New Leads in Search for Student | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

Webster is 5"2' tall, weighing 122 lbs. with brown hair and eyes. She was last seen wearing a long brown coat, a black skirt and a red blouse...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Search for Graduate Student Continues | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Investigators have never reached a consensus on ailurophobia-extreme fear of cats. Some postulate a traumatic childhood experience with felines, while others blame the cat's galvanizing stare, or disdain for affection, or even its slippery, furred coat and unfriendly, arching backbone. Traditional superstitions still exist: cats suck the breath from sleeping infants, sour fresh milk, forecast the phases of the moon and serve Satan. A black cat is bad luck. According to old belief, a cat, through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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