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...institution is at its ninth location, on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The setting is appropriate, since the museum traces changes in the practice of medicine during various wars. Its collection of artifacts includes the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere's dental equipment (bet you didn't know that in addition to being a silversmith, Revere was a dentist). For those who love literature, the 73-year-old Folger Shakespeare Library, tel: (1-202) 544 4600; www.folger.edu, has the world's largest collection of the Bard's memorabilia and printed works - even beating...
...taps above the sink." That led them to incise the washing symbols found on most clothing labels into tiles. "We were amazed no one had done it before," admits Turner, while Rege says that she made use of her father's professional equipment for the carving work: "His old dental tools worked brilliantly." The results are toothsome. tel: (44-20) 7627 3603; www.blinktiles.co.uk
Following four trips to the Arctic Circle and close to five years of research on the narwhal, Martin T. Nweeia, a clinical instructor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has discovered new information about the sensory abilities of the whale’s tusk. Nweeia discovered that the narwhal tusk is equipped with 10 million sensory endings that have the capability to detect changes in water temperature, pressure, osmotic gradients, and motion. According to Nweeia’s website, www.narwhal.org, the tusk is actually a tooth, shaped like a spiraled rod, which projects out of the male?...
Proponents say CSR programs present opportunities to develop new markets. After Crest, a Procter & Gamble brand, started a national dental-health program for underserved kids in 2000, it gained 15% more of the Hispanic market it had targeted. Customers may pay extra for brands that speak to their conscience. Whole Foods' meteoric rise, despite the high cost of its specialty goods, is testament to that claim. "The relationship with the consumer has to be framed in an eloquent way," says Timberland CEO Jeffrey Swartz. "Whole Foods is the best company in the world at framing that conversation...
...SYNDROME In October the American Academy of Pediatrics revised its guidelines for preventing sudden infant death syndrome. Key recommendations include giving babies a pacifier at nap time and bedtime but only when they are between 1 month and 1 year old--after breastfeeding has been firmly established and before dental problems are likely to arise. The academy also advises parents to place babies on their back to sleep, never on their side or front, and to put them to sleep in their crib, not the family bed, where they risk being strangled or suffocated...