Word: incisors
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...Helms has a missing front incisor; it never grew in when he was a kid. The actor mentioned this to the makers of his new movie, The Hangover, and they built a subplot around it, making Helms's character a dentist who, in a gesture of drunken machismo, pulls out his own tooth. That's just one element of serendipity that helped The Hangover - a no-star farce about three guys who lose their best friend on a Vegas toot - break the bank at this weekend's box office. Two other lucky breaks: the recent absence of R-rated guys...
...king and his family. He shaves his head and leaves the top two buttons of his tight-fitting shirt undone to reveal the tattooed crucifix on his chest. His dark eyes seem to say, How ya doin', especially to women, and his wide smile shows off a gold incisor. He's handy with machinery and is always the first to volunteer for duty when a boat is involved...
Colombo, the capital, is a colorful blend of bazaars, modern stores, temples and nightclubs. In the hills northeast of the city is the former royal capital Kandy, home to the Temple of the Tooth, which features a relic said to be Buddha's upper-left incisor. To the north stand a 5th century rock fortress and the splendid ruins of two ancient cities. In the central hill country, green tea plantations stretch like corduroy over the slopes surrounding the resort town of Nuwara Eliya (Above the Clouds). A stay at the Hill Club (011-94-52-226-53; $60) will...
...looks 50, and his gaunt face carries discolored scars from the falls and fights of three years on the streets. An upper incisor is missing, and his lower teeth jut outward against his lower lip, giving the impression that he can't close his mouth. His baggy pants are about five inches too long and when he walks, their frayed ends drag on the ground. "You know something?" he asks, holding up the bottle. "I wasn't stuck to this stuff until the cold got to me. Now I'll freeze without it. I could go to Florida or someplace...
Most anthropological theory is based upon fragmentary evidence: a femur here, an incisor there. But what Johanson found needed no jigsaw reconstruction. The collection of dozens of bones was literally the skeleton in Homo sapiens' closet. Nicknamed Lucy (because the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing on a tape machine in the expedition's camp), the original owner of the bones was not the most prepossessing of creatures. She stood about 3½ ft. tall and had a head the size of a softball. But despite her size, Lucy turned...