Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During her first month on the job last year, Denver Post Reporter Diana Griego, then 25, was assigned a feature story on a local dentist who implanted coded microdots in the teeth of children whose parents feared they might be kidnaped. "I wondered," Griego recalls, "Is this really necessary?" She knew that some experts claimed that 1.5 million children vanished every year, 50,000 kidnaped by strangers. But when Griego called the FBI and several private groups, she discovered that no one could back up the alarming numbers. After turning in her microdots story, Griego told her editor she wanted...
...Never Can Tell can be thought of as a nightmare version of the Brady Bunch: what happens when a famous author and her three children encounter the husband she left 18 years earlier. Throw in the one of the daughter's complicated courtship by a penniless dentist, and you'll have most of the plot...
When Jenny visited the dentist for her checkup, he asked her if she threw up often; the acid had been affecting her tooth enamel. Her dentist scared her, but when she tried cutting back on her binging and purging, she found it almost impossible...
...same time, Weinberger ordered that the military begin an educational program to encourage personnel not to smoke. A visit to the doctor or dentist will now include a short sermon on the ills of smoking...
...that they become a menace to everyone around them. A meter reader for a Washington utility became crazed after taking PCP and ran from one backyard to another. He hid behind bushes and jumped out and screamed at frightened neighborhood residents until police arrested him. In New Jersey a dentist who injected himself with three syringes of cocaine every morning as he drove down the turnpike to work began to complain that the fillings he was putting into patients' mouths were talking to him. His partners quickly forced the dentist to sell his share of the practice...