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...grocery shopping. So Cuevas looked closely at the little girl's face. "Those dimples were all the DNA I needed," says the 31-year-old. But after years of watching Cops on TV, Cuevas knew dimples weren't evidence: she followed Aaliyah upstairs, said, "Sweetheart, you've got some gum in your hair," and ripped five strands of hair off her scalp. Aaliyah yelped but didn't cry. Cuevas put the hairs in a ziplock bag. By the end of February, the police had matched the little girl's DNA to Cuevas' and Pedro...
...nomination, and Cahill takes nothing for granted. "The thing that is so clear about this election cycle is that you just have to keep on keeping on, because who knows what is going to happen?" she says, flicking into the trash one of the Nicorette gum wrappers that Shrum is always leaving around her office. "It's the completely unglamorous fundamentals...
...graduate courses at Oxford University that fall, Ted subbed for the vacationing writer of the On the Firing Line column for the Springfield Union. His job was to cull items from other papers and put a spin on them. He answered the household-hint question, "How can chewing gum be removed from a carpet?" with this: "Don't take chances, is our advice. A new package will only set you back a nickel...
There's a sameness to the drinks, in both their sweet taste and their ingredients (caffeine, fructose and taurine, a nonessential amino acid, are among the most common). They also share a penchant for aggressive, alpha-male names like Rockstar (which tastes like fizzy bubble gum), Venom (with a citrus bite), Blue Ox, Monster, Hype, "bone-crushing citrus" Piranha, Stinger and Whoop...
...Floss. Keeping your mouth clean by flossing and brushing regularly can reduce the risk of gum disease, a source of chronic inflammation...