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...unfortunate that the unfounded charges made by a "vocally organized minority" should penalize and deprive children, who have no voice in the decision, of the benefits of today's most effective means of reducing tooth decay...
Fine Bond Fides. The value of adding minute quantities (i.e., one part per 1,000,000) of sodium fluoride or a related compound to drinking water to reduce tooth decay among children is beyond scientific dispute. Only last week, the Washington, D.C. Public Health Department reported that an eight-year fluoridation program there has reduced dental caries among children in the seven-year-old age group by 63.5%. Nearly 2,000 U.S. communities, with a population of 38 million, fluoridate their water. The practice is endorsed by the American Dental Association, the American Medical Association, the U.S. Public Health Service...
...effect was to raise a thousand doubts, a why-take-a-chance anxiety. So "Mr. Tooth Decay," as the man on television puts it, won again...
...song tinkerer in Vienna wrote a gigantic cantata that profoundly impressed an already influential German composer, Richard Strauss. To Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder heralded a new flowering of post-Wagnerian romanticism. But the work was, in fact, only a massive monument to a musical tradition about to decay. After it, Schoenberg was to begin the experiments with atonalism that eventually determined the direction of 20th century music. Once popular in Germany, Gurrelieder had its U.S. premiere under Leopold Stokowski in 1932, has rarely been performed since. Last week at Carnegie Hall, still on the crutches he has used...
...only 9 microns (four ten-thousandths of an inch) in diameter, just the sort of sphere that is formed by the billions when the fireball of a nuclear explosion touches and melts the surface of the earth. The sphere's age, measured by careful study of its radioactive decay, proved that it must be part of the fallout of the February test in the Sahara. Since the sphere was too big to hover in the air very long or drift very far, Dr. Kettlewell believes that his little moth acquired its radioactive particle before leaving Africa, carried...