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...increasingly concerned by the cost of gas guzzlers in a fuel-short society. Since foreign-car makers generally tend to build smaller vehicles than the Americans do, the teardown experts are devoting special emphasis to ripping apart and examining every Toyota, Audi or Taunus that they can get their socket wrenches...
...teeth. Using anchors of stainless steel or vitallium to implant the replacement often causes infection or deterioration of the jawbone. A promising new technique developed by the University of Southern California school of dentistry and the Vitredent Corp. of Los Angeles seems likely to overcome both problems. The empty socket is filled with a root replacement of vitreous carbon; then the false tooth is fastened to this foundation. Carbon, the base of all living matter, is compatible with human tissue and causes no rejection, nor does it break down under the pressures of chewing. U.S.C...
...Bedlington was just a pup when she ate, with no preparation whatever, some light bulbs-disdaining the filament and socket screw. And I thought her wacky rather than precocious! Evidently it takes a Harvard education to garnish with Granola...
First the bulb eater cracks the glass into slivers and discards the filament and socket screw; there are limits even to an undergraduate's digestive prowess...
...March. Rand cannot find the tumor with X rays any longer, and although he will not say that the growth has disappeared, there is good reason to believe that it has at least shrunk. The patient's eye, which had been forced part way out of its socket by the expanding tumor, has returned to its proper place...