Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Financial considerations aside, there are some real medical issues to resolve. Perhaps the most serious is the concern that widespread use of antibiotics in the mouth could create super-virulent strains of gum-ravaging bacteria that would resist any attempts at treatment. "A lot of the new therapies are just at the tinkering, research stage right now," says Ray Williams, chairman of Harvard University's periodontal department. Until the gum-disease treatments get FDA approval, most people's options will remain the same as always: brush, floss and visit the dentist regularly -- or face the knife...
...travels hundreds of miles each week back and forth across Mississippi and Alabama from one to another of three of the abortion clinics he owns. In a typical year he will perform nearly 7,000 abortions and will make about $200,000. Protesters jam his car's locks with Super Glue, dive under his tires, trail him across the South, phone in bomb threats and even distribute a wanted poster with his picture on it: notorious!! Working six days a week, his only real diversions are playing golf and spending each Tuesday night playing blackjack and craps at the Splash...
...convention of people with super-high I.Q.s wouldn't be complete without classes and seminars. You can, for example, take Belly Dance for Fun and Fitness; An Intellectual's Guide to Good Sex; or Intelligent S&M for the '90s. There is art as well: My Life as an Erotic Artist is a slide display of works by Hutch, a pudgy Mensan software engineer. He is particularly proud of his penis-shaped ceramic incense burner...
Littleboy, who was called at home and came directly over to the labs, said the fire department opened the street up again at about 9 a.m. after determining that there was no danger from the spill. "In retrospect, it was overkill, but they're super people," he said...
Members of Congress found themselves forced to choose between billion-dollar programs: the Texas atomic super-collider and the still unbuilt space station. The space station won out, not because it carried with it a huge wave of new jobs. The uncontrollable irresistibility of space exploration...