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Fritschel, a cross country runner, says she faithfully performs the same routine--"sit ups, toe lifts, contacts out, brush and floss, go-to bed-early-because-I-have-to-go-to breakfast-or-my-day-isn't-complete-without-it"--every night...
Officials at the Hays County Jail in San Marcos, Texas, should have been suspicious when inmates bought hundreds of yards of dental floss from the prison commissary. The inmates were not concerned with dental hygiene. They braided the floss into a rope that they fashioned into a ladder with stirrups made of fabric threaded through cardboard salt and pepper shakers. Using hacksaw blades smuggled into the prison in the soles of bathing slippers, the trio managed to saw through two of three Plexiglas panels in a window of their dorm cellblock...
After guards spotted the missing panes, the ladder was found under an inmate's mattress. Last week Arthur Harris Stier, 33; Ian James Holbs, 32; and David Gregory Surasky, 37, pleaded guilty to attempted escape. "It was ingenious," marvels Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerald Carruth. "That dental floss is strong. When it's braided, it's like nylon. If they had made it through the window and up the ladder, only a mesh screen stood between them and escape...
...techniques to help people adjust to life without a cigarette dangling from their mouth. Smokenders, based in Connecticut, explains that a person puffs about 10 times for every cigarette smoked, or 200 times a day for every pack. With this in mind, the group teaches people to brush and floss after each meal in order to "give mouths plenty of that attention they're missing," says seminar director Charlotte Tausz. She also suggests "ways of engaging in noncaloric pucker responses" like sipping water through a straw or sucking on ginger root and cinnamon sticks...
...brush and floss regularly...