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...body, said Neuropsychiatrist Harold G. Wolff. "I don't believe stepped up living can be blamed. Man has always had his troubles. Medical records of the past are not good enough for comparison." ¶The most widely held myth about dental health is that pregnancy causes tooth decay, the American Dental Association reported. In a survey, 80% of the subjects polled believed that, and 63% also believed that the unborn child absorbs calcium from the mother's teeth (which is also untrue...
Comparative Ages. The age of the earth can be estimated in several ways. It loses heat to space, but it also gains heat from the decay of radioactive materials. By balancing the estimated losses against the gains, scientists have concluded that the earth's crust needed two to four billion years to reach its present temperature. The age of the crust can also be estimated by measuring the products of radioactive decay that are found in its oldest rocks. This figure comes out to about three billion years...
Most Spanish graveyards are places of desolation and decay presided over by gravediggers so thieving and callous that relations often slash the clothes of the dead to keep their bodies from being stripped. At best, the family of Paula Pilar Magan could expect nothing but the hasty dumping of a box into a hole...
Congratulations on the excellent cover story on Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines [TIME, Sept. 14]. With Naguib in Egypt, and Ike in America, one is moved to hope the usual moral decay following war is about over. After the long and dreary procession of aged, powerful murderers, sly and clever phonies, eggheads, screwball Messiahs, hotshots, white-haired, fast-buck boys and just plain internationally celebrated jerks-it is refreshing to realize that an oldfashioned, honest man is, at long last, news...
Green toothbrush may soon go the way of pink toothbrush. Just at the peak of the chlorophyll rage, U.S. toothpaste makers are beginning to switch to "enzyme inhibitors," developed at Northwestern University's Dental School. The new theory is that tooth decay is caused by enzymes (i.e., chemical agents produced by bacteria) turning sugars and starches into acids. Last week Lambert Co., Colgate, and Block Drug Co. were already hard at work on new anti-enzyme toothpastes, hope to have their new products on the market this fall. Said the American Dental Association: "The value of anti-enzymes . . . still...