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...first impressions and Edwards’ eyebrow ring soon disappeared, and in their place a fast friendship quickly took root...
...Haven were just the sum of its galleries and martini bars, it would be just a low-rent Soho with a suspiciously large quantity of parking. What defines the place—what makes you really root for this city—are the overwhelming challenges it’s managed to vault...
...With the U.S. Congress still restricting aid to Indonesia's military, Washington has little choice but to rely on the police in its drive to root out terrorism in the country. "It was bold to propose assisting a foreign police force, especially one that has had human-rights problems in the past, like Indonesia," admits U.S. ambassador Ralph Boyce. But, he says, "I believe security forces that have the benefit of training like this are going to behave better than ones that don't." Boyce adds that all Indonesian trainees are vetted to ensure none have been accused of rights...
...only a few board certified dental surgeons in the U.S.—only 4 in New England...Unfortunately Blix lost some teeth that were rotted but now he will be much healthier. Dr Rosenblad thinks Blix is about 6 years old. He did not do any root canals because the teeth were not worth saving, so you can stay in college instead of having to get a job to pay for Blix’s dental work. Blix was rather drunk from the morphine when we took him home but seems good this...
Before turning to fiction in the early 1980s, Chinese writer Yu Hua toiled as a country dentist. So it's no surprise, perhaps, that his early works are as sadistic as a triple root canal. In The Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind...