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Meese chairs most meetings of Reagan's top advisers. He jots down the often conflicting views in his ever present spiral notebook and later distills them into well-reasoned, easily digested, single-page memos or brief oral reports to Reagan, just as he has been doing since 1967, when he first joined the Governor's staff. Says Edward Thomas, Meese's chief aide: "He can hash out a complex issue until it can be stated as simply as A, B, C. It puts the Governor right at ease." After Jan. 20, Meese will perform much the same...
...operation, which Joy intends to do, would not be the first performed on a prisoner; at least 40 inmates in the South have sought a new outlook on life from Joy, head of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Joy's mentor, Surgeon Elmer Bear of the Medical College of Virginia, began reshaping prisoners' mugs 20 years ago, and has done about 25 such operations all told...
...Joseph Henry, professor of Oral Surgery, stressed the need for affirmative action in hiring for faculty positions, adding that "there are precious few opportunities at the fellowship level. "The Med School comes up with 20 percent minority student enrollment--we need to have the same kind of commitment at the faculty level," Henry said...
Dentists are also victims of their own success. With improved equipment like high-speed drills, tooth capping and other repairs can be accomplished in a fraction of the time once needed. Preventive oral hygiene has also paid off in healthier teeth. The three-decades-old program of adding fluoride to drinking water has had dramatic impact on cavities-and so have fluoride toothpastes. An A.D.A. survey shows that a child who drinks fluoridated water from birth to age 14 develops 60% fewer cavities than a youngster who drinks unfluoridated water...
Sigmund S. Socransky, associate clinical professor of Oral Biology, and Jeffrey M. Gordon, a researcher at Forsyth Dental Center this year began testing tetracycline treatment on humans...