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DiCaprio is indecisive about almost everything, including his willingness to shop for food with a reporter. He vetoed taking me to the dentist, thinking it would be too embarrassing. Working out with his personal trainer would display too much complaining. His house in the Hollywood Hills is out. And he's certainly not going to a bar, considering he wants to lose the party-boy image. "Hey, we can go to the movies because, you know, I do movies," he jokes, trying to deconstruct the whole process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What's Eating Leonardo DiCaprio? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

This means that the primary examination--a process that might take 45 minutes at a private dentist's office--is slated to last three hours at the clinic, according to Julius T. Park, a third year student...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dental Students Learn Tools of the Trade | 2/15/2000 | See Source »

STRAP THAT SUCKER Frustrated because your preschooler is still sucking his or her thumb at night? Ask your dentist how to use a technique outlined in the journal Pediatric Dentistry safely. The method involves wrapping an Ace bandage (snugly, but not too tightly) around your child's elbow, from mid-arm to mid-forearm, to create a gentle tension that pulls the thumb from the mouth as the youngster relaxes and falls asleep. The approach, which has shown a 60% rate of success, requires that your child be willing to try it, and that he or she be periodically rewarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Feb. 7, 2000 | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...hard work and hype truly averted a serious problem. Now, Y2K-related errors are popping up in some more important computer systems. The Y2K consulting firm the Gartner Group reported that some of its clients had problems ranging from a computer that mixed up customer orders to a dentist's office that would not allow appointments to be made for the year 2000 and then crashed, destroying patients' records...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Lauding the Y2K Hype | 1/12/2000 | See Source »

...they shrug, and you can understand the attitude. The conventions of the TV talk show, circa 1999, inflate the trivial and trivialize the important. Watching Hardball's Chris Matthews bark at his guests about tax plans and sex scandals, you wonder why his guests don't cover themselves with dentist's smocks to fend off the flying spittle. Kinsley recalls that as co-host of Crossfire, the CNN shoutfest, he once disagreed with a guest in too civil a tone. "No, no!" the producer shouted into his earpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Quiet on the Firing Line: William F. Buckley Jr. | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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