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...montage is violently edited, aggressively recreating this warped perception. Unlike Bogdanovich's Targets, where endless L. A. street footage is accompanied by characters lamenting its over-all ugliness, Antonioni's L. A. is active in his characters' lives. The scene is lightweight taken as a judgment on urban decay. Seen as Antonioni's interpretation of landscape, it provides a clue for an audience seeking a way to watch the film...
Admittedly, fluoridation of water is not the whole answer to dental health. The fluorides protect the sides of the teeth more than the grinding surfaces of molars, which have tiny fissures in them where decay often begins, especially in adolescents. For these surfaces, Dr. Michael Buonocore of the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester has devised a technique of coating with plastic film. Fluoridated toothpastes have won the approval of the American Dental Association (though not of all individual dentists) as a useful adjunct to water fluoridation. Another possibility, on which the National Institute of Dental Research is working...
They are probably right. Americium emits almost exclusively alpha particles, the nuclei of helium atoms produced by the isotope's slow decay into lighter elements. The alpha particles are so weak that they remain confined inside the victim's body. While contagion is virtually impossible, this is only slight comfort to the victims. As americium spreads through the body, it may linger in such areas as the liver, spleen and lymph system and eventually settle into the marrow of the bones. According to Pittsburgh Radiologist Niel Wald, a leading radiation specialist, the effect over a year-long period...
...fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay...
full employment and a burgeoning list 31 other advances have not been matched by an end to poverty, racism or urban decay. More and more critics argue that obsession with economic growth has tended to blind men to the dep redations that it leaves in its wake...