Word: festers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has stood by and allowed the administrative problems in the Expos programs to fester. Harvard's failure to address the serious problems at Expos reflects a shallow commitment to its undergraduates, and to undergraduate education...
...strategy involves implanting into the gums antibiotics or other germ killers so that they can attack bacteria in the pockets where they fester. Standard antibiotic pills, which some specialists have relied on, needlessly expose the entire body to a powerful drug and have not always proved effective. Gum disease "behaves like a chronic type of inflammatory disease," explains Kenneth Kornman, a professor of periodontics at the University of Texas in San Antonio. "We have a hard time eliminating those bacteria." For that reason, dental researchers decided to concentrate the antibiotics' killing power by applying medication directly into infected areas...
FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME FOR A WOUND TO FESter. The small, proud community of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, has been in pain ever since four young football players from the local high school were accused in 1989 of luring a 17-year- old retarded girl into a basement and penetrating her with a broomstick handle and a baseball bat, while a group of friends watched. Last week three of those charged, Christopher Archer, now 20, and 21-year-old twins Kevin and Kyle Scherzer, were found guilty of sexual assault. All four, including Bryant Grober, 21, were convicted...
...outer wear, he dons a too-new leather jacket with studs (NOT the Fonzi kind). Or better yet, a cloak (like Fester...
Imagine the wardrobe for the Adams Family (the show as well as the house). They dress somewhat like Uncle Fester...