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...Unfortunately, most of the public views dental health as slightly less important (and less exciting) than cleaning their storm gutters. While most people would rush off to the doctor's office if they tore a ligament or had a cut that wouldn't heal, few seem to view their oral health with the same urgency, says Dr. Marjorie Jeffcoat, Rosen Professor at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry and a coauthor of the report. And while missing a few dentist appointments isn't likely to kill anyone, years of neglect could take their toll - in ways most people might...
...country at large is brushing and flossing itself into a frenzy. So why are some Americans still falling prey to poor oral health? According to a sweeping report issued Thursday by the Surgeon General's office, a disproportionate number of minorities and low-income Americans suffer from cavities, gum disease and oral cancer - even as the rest of the nation continues to chalk up victories over the same ailments. Close to half of the nation's poor blacks and Hispanics have untreated tooth decay, compared with 27 percent of poor whites. Researchers are blaming the disparity on a combination...
...probably the Monica Lewinsky affair, which broke scant months after The View's launch, that confirmed the show's moment had arrived. Suddenly the country was talking about oral sex, semen and adultery in homes and offices. This talk led to hand wringing about "the coarsening of the culture," but it also illustrated the feminist dictum that the personal is political. It demonstrated--just as working women's juggling of job and home life does--that sloppy private matters can't be neatly divorced from public life. From 24-hour news to Politically Incorrect, groups of people arguing took root...
...things: No outbursts of emotion would be tolerated; and the audience shouldn't impute opinions from the judges' questions, since justices often play devil's advocate when hearing an appeal. Still, there was little surprise that the Miami family appeared a little muted after the 90 minutes of oral argument. "I think they expected that their argument that a six-year-old can seek political asylum would have been more sympathetically received by the court," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett from Atlanta. "Instead, it encountered more scrutiny and skepticism than they were prepared for. At the same time...
...were the Norse any less sophisticated than other Europeans. Their oral literature--epic poems known as Eddas as well as their sagas--was Homeric in drama and scope. During the evenings and throughout the long, dark winters, the Norse amused themselves with such challenging board games as backgammon and chess (though they didn't invent them). By day the women cooked, cleaned, sewed and ironed, using whalebone plaques as boards and running a heavy stone or glass smoother over the seams of garments...