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...anniversary of the world's first test, in Grand Rapids, of an attempt to fluoridate water supplies so that children would need fewer fillings-and fewer extractions. The Grand Rapids program was soon followed by a similar test in Newburgh, N.Y. The results were checked against the dental decay rate of children in comparable cities without fluoridation: Muskegon, Mich., and Kingston...
...ideal amount of fluorine salts in public water has been established as one part per million. Less than that gives inadequate protection against decay; double that, or more, causes mottling. The question that has agitated hundreds of U.S. communities is whether fluorides,-even in a dilution of one part per million, are safe. The answer, from scientifically controlled studies in many countries, is an unequivocal yes on the basis of the evidence. But strident opposition has come from Christian Scientists, the Ku Klux Klan, the John Birch Society and a handful of physiologists and dentists. They assert that fluorides (among...
...their views on the people who are directly affected by the laws. Their view of morality seems to be limited to disapproval of premarital sex. "Sex, sex, sex-that's all I've heard this morning," ranted William Carey (R-Suffolk). In fact, his fifteen-minute diatribe on the decay of morality in young people was the only prolonged discussion of sexual intercourse the committee heard. They listened sympathetically. The chairman at one point asked the spectators, most of whom supported the bill, to quiet down and listen to Carey. "You don't have a monopoly on the right point...
...whole week ahead of them and they need something to look forward to . . .") and go on in a predictable yet subtly understated manner to remodel Max's "too personal, too negative" reasons into "happy, acceptable reasons." The happy acceptable reasons are serving as a warning to moral decay and the unpatriotic, socialist "beasts among us, who say equality but mean debasement...
...loss. With a brisk, nononsense, let's-get-on-with-it approach, he sounds all the optimistic notes in The Three Sisters. The emphasis is on Chekhov's hopes that work and intelligence and energy will change and save the pre-Revolutionary Russia of sloth, injustice and decay. There is something ironic about...