Word: orthodontia
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...made even taller so he would be sure to make the Notre Dame football team. Says Dr. Joseph Gertner, program director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "As people realize that they have control over certain aspects of their appearance, as with orthodontia, nose jobs and breast jobs, those people concerned about stature will want to have therapy...
...hearing about someone like Geoffrey Tabin, "Where would we be if everyone jumped off bridges on long rubber bungee cords?" Bobbing boozily up and down, yoing, yoing, yoing, that is where we would be. Can't have that; no one ever got any aluminum siding sold or orthodontia bills paid while dangling from a bungee cord. And Tabin, a Harvard medical student, admits that an alcohol-fueled, top-hat-and-tails leap off of Colorado's 1,053-ft.-high Royal Gorge bridge in 1980 required "no skill, just a little stupidity and a fairly calculated risk...
...every effort. In his newest book, he follows the adventures of an altruistic mouse dentist, Dr. De Soto, who accepts a highly dangerous and extremely toothy patient. The fox, acting timid, tries to outmouse Dr. De Soto. But the rodent soon outfoxes the patient by employing a bit of orthodontia. The heroics should reassure anyone due for a six-month checkup or a set of braces...
Three-day work weeks. Sign-up bonuses as high as $7,000. A key to the company hot tub. Free orthodontia for all the children...
Marilyn Taylor of Ramsey, N.J., watches with trepidation when twelve-year-old Bobby skates into the corner, endangering the family's $1,600 investment in orthodontia. "It's not easy to be a hockey mother," she says. "Sometimes we have to get up at 3 in the morning to make a game. But it's never any problem. I just go to his room and say 'Hockey,' and my boy is right...