Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from Cheltenham, England, who developed a near fatal infection four days after her tongue was pierced. Most tongues swell--often as much as double their normal size--when they're punctured; hers grew so fat it became trapped against the roof of her mouth and pushed her epiglottis, a flap of tissue that keeps food from entering the lungs, against the back of her throat, cutting off her air supply. When antibiotics failed to reverse the swelling, oral surgeons had to force a tube through her nose and down her throat so she could breathe...
...jewelry consists of two parts that are screwed together. But what's screwed together can, and often does, come apart. Dentists Shelia Price and Maurice Lewis of Morgantown, W.Va., tell the story of a 20-year-old patient who pierced not only his tongue but also his uvula, the flap of skin that hangs down at the back of the mouth. "That's pretty rare," Price notes, "primarily because of the gag reflex." At any rate, the hoop in the man's uvula came undone and fell into his throat. Fortunately, he swallowed it instead of aspirating it into...
...consider a direct evolutionary relationship. A dinosaur with feathers would clearly tip the scales: they're by far birds' most characteristic feature, and they had to evolve from somewhere. The skeptics have always contended that birds' ancestors were tree-dwelling lizards, and that feathers evolved to help the lizards flap their way from branch to branch. Fast-running, ground-dwelling dinos like velociraptors would never have needed feathers...
...began Ulysses in 1914; portions of it in progress appeared in the Egoist in England and the Little Review in the U.S., until the Post Office, on grounds of alleged obscenity, confiscated three issues containing Joyce's excerpts and fined the editors $100. The censorship flap only heightened curiosity about Joyce's forthcoming book. Even before Ulysses was published, critics were comparing Joyce's breakthroughs to those of Einstein and Freud...
...which will broaden the knowledge and character of each student in all the separate schools. The attempt by the Business School Alumni Association to buy the election by supporting their candidates is an indication of the need to promote ethics and mutual understanding in all groups in society. The flap caused by their indiscretion should serve as a lesson to the business community which as a whole dominates the Overseers. Alumni throughout the country are asking more of the Overseers. They see the need for a new and better Harvard. That is the challenge for the future. JOHN E. JACOBY...