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Kids who lose a baby tooth will often put it under their pillow for the Tooth Fairy. But Julia Shi's dad Songtai is a dentist and a medical researcher at the National Institutes of Health. When Julia, then 6, shed a tooth recently, they noticed that a little piece of red pulp was still attached. That gave him an idea, and the next time she lost a tooth, he placed it in a liquid used to culture cells. Back at the lab, he extracted the pulp and found that it contained a number of stem cells, those special progenitor...
...subject to these advertisements in hundreds of cabs. While having Isaac Hayes ask me to be concerned with my safety can be considered annoying, it is not nearly as frustrating as being urged to visit a trendy downtown bistro when I’m on my way to the dentist. Mute buttons on the screens can cut the noise, but having cute announcers bouncing around my knees during the ride is not as enjoyable as it might sound...
...charmer and a ladies' man. When Yousef and Mohammed weren't plotting destruction together in Manila, they were partying, say Philippine intelligence agents. Mohammed took up with a bar girl he met at the Cotton Candy Club. Later he hired a helicopter and pilot to impress a female dentist he was courting. Yousef and Mohammed took their girlfriends scuba diving at beach resorts, but Mohammed remained an enigma even to the women he dated. None suspected that Mohammed, who passed himself off as a Saudi plywood exporter, was the leader of a radical Islamic cell...
CONVICTED. CLARA HARRIS, 45, Texas dentist; of murder, by repeatedly running over her adulterous husband David with her Mercedes-Benz, as her stepdaughter sat beside her in the car; in Houston. Harris, who contended the death was accidental and that she was simply trying to ram the vehicle of her husband's lover, was sentenced to 20 years in prison...
Perhaps it is the densely-packed, regulation-filled pages that make the Constitution more of a symbol than a fascinating read. But maybe there just are not enough of them lying around, next to dentist chairs or in DMV waiting rooms, available for folks who have nothing better...