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...Dwyer, 41, a Detroit mechanical engineer, went through several sets of false teeth after smasinng ins jaw in a 1957 automobile accident. He found them all so uncomfortable and unsatisfactory that he actually took them out winle eating. Since being fitted with a mandibular staple in 1969, he has eaten everytinng, including such hard-to-chew foods as carrots...
...fate, goes into a period of mourning so intense that it causes all green things to turn brown and die. Finally, to prevent the earth from dying, Zeus intervenes and orders Hades to restore Persephone to her mother. Hades does so, but only after making sure Persephone has eaten in the underworld, thus assuring that she return there for at least some portion of each year. During spring and summer mother and daughter are together and the earth is green during fall and winter mother and daughter are apart and the earth is brown and dead...
...embroiled in campaigning, Pittsburgh's Democratic mayor, Pete Flaherty, makes a habit of coming home for dinner every night so that he can chat with his five children. Once he is finished, he usually goes off to an officially scheduled dinner. "He gets there after everybody has eaten," says his wife Nancy. "But they don't seem to mind." And meanwhile, she adds, "Pete has told me and the children what is going on." Junie Butler, wife of a Virginia Congressman, states this creed for the wife determined to avoid being submerged by the political life...
...mosquito. Researchers from the New Jersey Medical School and the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, N.J., report in the A.M.A. Journal that they became suspicious after studying an epidemic of hepatitis that hit New Jersey in 1955. None of the victims was a drug addict, and none had eaten shellfish or come into contact with known hepatitis carriers. But all had been victims of multiple mosquito bites in the three months preceding their infection. The insects might well have given them the disease. When the researchers, using newly developed techniques, examined 251 batches of mosquitoes from 15 sites...
...bread-winners, and because married couples usually give more to the husband's alma mater than the wife's. Therefore, a reduction in men now is supposed to mean a severe drop in contributions 20 years from now. Money, then, is one of thickest and hardest layers to be eaten through if Harvard and Radcliffe are ever to become a single University dedicated to equal access and treatment in the education of all its students...