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...important point. An important political decision needs to be made about how much we're going to allow this globalization of industries and labor forces to continue. We've got the capacity now to globalize production in a much wider range of economic activities. When I go to my dentist's office, I look at the wall behind the receptionist, and it's all these paper files. That's all going to change. Maybe some of that will get digitized, maybe some will go to India or China or God knows where. It's like manufacturing back in the 1980s...
...best known for her victory in the 1936 Olympic Alpine combined skiing event, where, after falling in the downhill, she came back in the slalom to take the gold medal. DIED. W. DORWIN TEAGUE, 94, prolific industrial designer who invented the mimeograph machine and the first fully reclining dentist chair, as well as improved versions of everything from cash registers to can openers; in Carbondale, Illinois...
...subdued, Brown says. To remain fresh, Latham will also have to master distinguishing the meaningful from the banal when he tells his story. Launching a dental program in inner Sydney, Latham revealed to journalists and state politicians that he, too, had teeth and had visited a dentist. Aged 13, he'd chipped a tooth in junior league and had to go and see Nelson Wong in Ingleburn to have it fixed...
...sweat, we cut away our languages, our names, and in return for this tiny effort we are given our wonderful smile and it protects us, because God is on our side." Like God, Hannah too loves a drunk. His name is Robert Gardener, a dipsomaniac of a dentist, and though he seems to make her whole ("Nobody is complete - we all need topping up") it quickly becomes clear that her void is spiritual, not spirit-based. God, faith and salvation are ideas that regularly hover around Kennedy's fictions. But in Paradise, He's suddenly everywhere: in the form...
...Booth's appetite for Hong Kong's idiosyncrasies is already whetted. He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment and a dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, polish ancestral bones during the Festival of Hungry Ghosts and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets?and, one scary...