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...biochemical research has taught Monsanto to manipulate cells. The making of ingredients for simple toothpaste has unlocked some mysteries of dental cavities. Thus the company's scientists are also working with those at the Harvard Dental School to find ways of controlling diseases of the teeth and gums...
During the late sixties, he was as much amused by the "flower punks" of the Summer of Love as he was by the contagious mediocrity which brought plastic furniture to the suburbs. Never one to take the world seriously, Zappa has long since moved to Montana and become a dental floss tycoon...
...team captain from 1871-73. White became a professor of German at Harvard and eventually athletic director. In a retrospective that appeared in the Crimson in 1927, he noted that in the absence of a mask he "was accustomed to bite upon a large rubber eraser, to prevent dental demolition, with a surreptitious supplementary duplicate to lend to envious and suppliant professional backstops. But this was the principle concession made for defensive armor...
...House of Representatives restored the grants earlier in the month, but the Senate voted Wednesday to trim the grants by about 20 per cent, meaning a collective loss of about $250,000 to the Med School, the Dental School and the school of Public Health. The final answer will come after a House-Senate conference committee meets next week...
...first thing one hears is the cry of birds. A solitary figure shuffles in like a molting heron wearing steel-rimmed spectacles. He is Norman Thayer Jr. (Tom Aldredge), hater of the New York Yankees, high dental fees and, most of all, the thought of turning 80. For 48 years, Norman and his wife Ethel (Frances Sternhagen) have summered at their Maine cottage on Golden Pond...