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...considered too weak to withstand the vicissitudes of chewing. But that is changing. "White fillings have gotten stronger and more wear resistant," says Dr. J. Rodway Mackert, an American Dental Association spokesman and dentistry professor. The fillings are made in various shades of white to match patients' teeth. Some mimic the smoothness of front teeth, while others are more durable, for hard-crunching molars. They still don't last quite as long as mercury amalgam fillings but are so good that some dentists have stopped using anything else. The only dark news: white fillings are bitingly expensive...
...only thing we got in common is that we're from Tennessee." Except that Presley was from Tupelo, Miss., Jerry Lee in Ferriday, La. He was born September 29, 1935, 274 days after Elvis, in Ferriday, La. Among his cousins were Swaggart and Mickey Gilley, who much later would mimic Jerry Lee's style and sell far more singles than the Moloch...
Upstream in the Dakotas, river-fed reservoirs have stimulated an $86 million annual tourist business. There residents are in favor of using the dams to mimic the natural flow. Reason: less water will be sent downstream in the summer. That means more water for their marinas and lakes, so boaters won't be left high and dry. In Garrison, S.D., behind the vast reservoir created by the Garrison Dam, businesses see their sales fluctuate with the level of the reservoir. Last year sales hit $11 million, but in years when the corps sends water south to keep barges from running...
...Mira landed an Academy Award for her breakout role in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite. From there, she went on to amass a genre-defying collection of credits, including dramatic turns in Summer of Sam and At First Sight, rough-and-tumble action roles in Mimic and The Replacement Killers and comedic romps like Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion...
...Mueller is considering ordering several thousand more FBI employees to go on the box. But he won't force preventive polygraphs on all 28,000 FBI employees, all of whom have at least Top Secret clearance, in part because he, like most career FBI executives, doesn't want to mimic the CIA, where polygraphs have generated false positives that have consigned innocent government employees to career limbo...