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...Americans seek ever whiter teeth, it only makes sense that they want pearly fillings too. White fillings, which are made of resin, used to be 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...
...swing that often, eerily, found the ball. Later, observed Red Sox star Carl Yastrzemski, "he studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market." Williams treated the game as a science and a fine art, weighing his bats on a postal scale, massaging them with olive oil and resin. When he said, "Hitting is 50% above the shoulders," he was speaking of a sharp eye--to read the seams on a curve ball and then smack the cover off it--and a UNIVAC brain that held all relevant data on a rival pitcher's quirks...
SOUK SCENTS Long before petroleum was discovered in the Middle East, Arab trade was dominated by incense, fragrant resins and perfume woods?and Oman, as the center of this trade, prospered. It may seem something of a contradiction that Omanis, given their conservative customs, would indulge in the extravagant and heady scents of rose oil, musk, sandalwood, myrrh and frankincense. But a trip to the souk, or traditional market, in Muttrah quickly reveals this penchant for perfume is not just an aesthetic pleasure?it's big business with a long history. Omanis have been extracting frankincense from the Boswellia carterii...
Thanks to Photoshop, the staff can see an enlarged version of a microscopic view of a tiny sample from the removed paint that has been mounted in resin...
...never tried opium before coming to Laos, and she had told herself back in Epsom, England, she would never, ever, try heroin. But she viewed opium, which is the base product from which other opiates like morphine and heroin are derived, as different. This drug, the dried resin of a poppy plant, seemed more organic than those bindles of powdered heroin she had seen change hands back in England. While those transactions had seemed sinister, this complex heating of the opium and then stoking of the pipe was appealingly ritualistic. "It's really wicked, the way you have...