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TURBO TOOTHBRUSH Yes, it's expensive, but the makers of the Dental Air Force ($400) insist it makes sense to put your money where your mouth is. The toaster-size teeth-cleaning device, which you can buy online at www.dentalairforce com attacks plaque with a jet stream of air, water and cleaning fluid in a power wash. It's definitely a gizmo that only a dentist could love...
...hidden wonders, and Luang Prabang has certainly achieved cult status among travelers since UNESCO pronounced it the best-preserved city in Southeast Asia six years ago and put it on the World Heritage list. "What a delightful paradise of idleness this country protects, by the fierce barrier of the stream, against progress and ambition for which it has no need," wrote Marthe Bassene, a resident French doctor's wife, in 1909. Her words have since been immortalized in the august pages of the Lonely Planet. "Will Luang Prabang be ... the refuge of the last dreamers, the last lovers, the last...
people out there doing great research,” Vadhan said. “It’s wonderful that they have such fellowships to help us new faculty out early in our careers, before we’ve had a chance to establish a steady stream of grant support...
...Above Fifth Avenue, Looking North,” a 1905 print by Underwood & Underwood, depicts a man with a camera sitting precariously at the intersection of two steel beams above Fifth Avenue. Carriages stream uptown on the street below him. The tallest building, superimposed against a bright sky in the distance, does not exceed twenty stories. The central figure, the cameraman, looks west, but the actual photographer looks north. But in some sense the fictional and real artists actually gaze towards the future of New York City...
...murmured, feeling my pulse. "Too much kapha." She glanced at the symptoms on my chart?fatigue, irritability and the occasional blinding migraine?and scribbled a prescription. "Don't worry, we can help you." A day later, I was in treatment, lying flat on my back with a thin stream of heated oil drizzling onto my forehead. For 40 min. two barefoot attendants poured a pungent green oil over my brow in a gentle back and forth motion. It might sound like slow torture, but the shirodhara oil treatment is deeply relaxing and said to cure migraines...