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Allegations made public last week raised new questions: What humanity may Michael Jackson have lost? What innocence might he have stolen from children dazzled by his aura? In a vitriolic custody battle between a Los Angeles woman and her ex-husband, who is a prominent dentist and (it goes without saying) screenwriter, the pair's 13-year-old child had accused Jackson of fellating him, and the Los Angeles Police Department was investigating the charge. The star, who has poignantly described himself as a victim of child abuse, was in danger of being exposed as a perpetrator...
...results will demonstrate that there was no wrongdoing on my part." His attorney, Howard Weitzman, denied the charge and accused the father of extortion. "What has transpired here," he says, "is the result of a rejected demand made by a father of one of Michael's young friends." The dentist, Jackson's camp alleged, had proposed a $20 million production partnership with the star and had added this threat: Put up the money or I'll tell the cops you abused my boy. The father has reportedly denied this...
...patients don't get to a dentist before the disease gets out of hand, the treatment used to save the teeth is not pleasant. Wielding sharp metal tools, periodontists scrape germ-laden plaque from around the teeth and under the gumline. If that doesn't work, the usual next step is oral surgery that carves away pieces of infected...
...treatment. "A lot of the new therapies are just at the tinkering, research stage right now," says Ray Williams, chairman of Harvard University's periodontal department. Until the gum-disease treatments get FDA approval, most people's options will remain the same as always: brush, floss and visit the dentist regularly -- or face the knife...
...cross between Waiting to Exhale and You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again. It crackles with devastating caricatures of male pomposity, black and white, that help explain why it is so difficult for black women to make themselves heard. There is Nelson's fulminating father, a prosperous dentist who admonished his children to "be number one" while hoisting his middle finger to drive home the point; Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, a "short, gray, wrinkled gnome" whose interviewing technique consisted of droning on about himself instead of asking questions; the black male reporter who went behind Nelson...