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...exhausting and frightening experience. Shortly before the government announced that the Price girls had ended their fast, their sister Clare reported that they weighed less than 98 Ibs. each, that their skin had turned waxen, their hair was falling out and their mouths were covered with sores. The prison dentist confirmed that the sisters' teeth had been loosened under pressure from the mouth clamp. Last month, after doctors had said that the girls would probably die sooner from continued force-feeding than from fasting, officials halted the procedure...
...middle age with a tenured position in the Natural Sciences and little administrative experience. He will be Whitlock and Kiely's boss, although Rosovsky may not refill Kiely's post at all after Kiely leaves it. And he will, Rosovsky hopes, help him become a little less of a dentist while coordinating the administrative and educational aspects of undergraduate education...
...intrigues of exercising power and kept most decisions very close to his vest. Rosovsky doesn't like the constant give-and-take with many different people that such an approach to the job requires. "One of the things that depresses me about this job is feeling like a dentist, with people coming in every half-hour," he said at the beginning of the year...
...Rosovsky had to spend a lot of time talking to people. On the first day of the fall term, he complained that he felt "like a dentist," adding, "Every half hour another person comes in, leaving little time for contemplation...
...other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and file for an extension of the income tax deadline. They seldom pay credit-card bills until the apocalyptic voice of Diners threatens doom from Denver. They postpone, as Faustian encounters, visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor...