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...dentist from Lafayette describes the support for Duke at a hospital where he works. He thinks it is dirty campaigning for Duke's foes to keep bringing up his past: "The Times-Picayune does not bring up Chappaquiddick every time it mentions Teddy Kennedy." "They bring up my past," Duke tells the dentist, "because they do not want to talk about my issues." His issues -- he owns them around here -- are opposition to affirmative action, minority set-asides and welfare without drug testing. "I'm for equal rights, even for white people" is the briefest statement of his program...
...1950s in Thomasville, Ga., he jolted that little community by going to the front doors of white townspeople, not to the side or back entries. He is used to having gates open for him. He grew up in New Orleans, the son of a prosperous light-skinned dentist who liked to stress the family's "Indian blood." When he played with white boys, it was because he owned the ball and bat. When he studied theology, it was not with Southern Baptists but with white Congregationalists in Connecticut. Baffled in his attempt to become a missionary to Africa, he became...
...high fiber and few preservatives for adults are still using sugar and refined flour and artificial flavoring for kids." Most everyone agrees the sweet stuff promotes tooth decay. "I tell kids they should throw away the cereal and eat the boxes," says Richard Holstein, a New Jersey children's dentist. "At least they'd get some fiber...
Anthropologist Jane Phillips-Conroy, who studies baboons in Ethiopia, claims that volunteers often contribute expertise as well as grunt work. She says the best tooth casts she ever collected were made by a dentist who had joined the expedition. But perhaps the greatest benefit of Earthwatch is the commitment that its volunteers acquire in the field. Says Tundi Agardy, a marine biologist who started Earthwatch's turtle programs: "The immediate benefit is to help save a generation of endangered turtles, but the real value is that volunteers themselves become the seed corn of the conservation movement, spreading the word when...
...After Princeton scared the bejabbers out of mighty Michigan State, losing earlier this season by two points, Jud Heathcote sang the same tune. "We don't want to play them anymore." Jim Valvano, the coach at North Carolina State, says playing a Carril team is like going to the dentist: very painful. Carril accepts the backhanded compliments as reluctant praise, although he says, "These guys must study one-liners at night...