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...shows that children are accumulating too much fluoride overall. The World Health Organization sets a fluoride-safety standard of 1.5 p.p.m.--well below the EPA's 4-p.p.m. rule--partly to prevent enamel fluorosis. And in Western Europe, where the drop in tooth decay in recent decades is as sharp as that in the U.S., 17 of 21 countries have either refused or discontinued fluoridation, contending that fluoride toothpastes offer adequate protection. (Only Ireland adds fluoride to most of its water systems, while Switzerland fluoridates its salt...
...those nine names has long been a childhood rite of passage, up there with learning to tie your shoes. Yes, Pluto was always an oddball: not only is it tiny (two-thirds the size of our moon), but it has a weird, elongated orbit that is tilted at a sharp angle to the plane the other planets inhabit. Still, the gap in size between Pluto and the biggest asteroids was comfortably huge...
...Apple introduced only 15 months ago, the new iPod has more memory (30 GB as opposed to 20 GB), and it's thinner (0.43 in., as opposed to 0.6 in.). Plus, it plays video. The screen is just 2.5 in. diagonally, but because it's extremely bright and very sharp, it looks bigger than it is. It's the kind of thing you could definitely imagine being unable to live without...
...performance opportunities at Pub Nights and house-sponsored coffeehouses ensure that this assumption is not completely unfounded, the Quincy Cage remains the most reliable stage for many Harvard bands. While the Cage’s management has been admired for all of recent memory, the new team of J.P. Sharp ’07, Teddy R. Sherrill ’08, and Abe J. Riesman ’08 promises a banner year for the venue. Sharp describes the Cage as unique, and asks, “Where else in the houses can Harvard bands regularly perform? [...] With everything else...
...carried the guilt [of,] at 12 years old, not doing something to fight.”STICKING TO THE STORYFor Bender, the producer who discovered Quentin Tarantino and has produced all of that director’s films, “Innocent Voices” was a sharp change of pace.“It’s harder to promote complexity and interesting characters than it is to promote characters like Spider Man, who’s stopping the bad guys with a $40 million advertising budget behind him,” Bender says.But while the issues are important...