Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team at the University of California, San Francisco, took pains to investigate. Using drugs called kappa opioids, a form of opiate commonly used to ease labor pains, they gave intravenous doses to 28 men and 20 women, all in their early 20s, who had just had wisdom teeth extracted...
...surprise of the researchers, who report in the current Nature Medicine, the two sexes showed a striking difference in their responses. While the women were still generally pain-free three hours after having their teeth pulled, the males had no such luck. Their relief was slight and lasted only about an hour. No comparable gender difference in pain relief has yet been found with the more powerful and widely used opiates such as morphine and codeine...
...wartime dealings with the Nazis and its postwar treatment of the survivors of those Jews who had entrusted their savings to Swiss banks, lawyers and insurance companies. Among the most grisly charges: that the Swiss National Bank is still holding gold ingots melted down from the jewelry and teeth of Holocaust victims...
...countries ended up in Switzerland. Citing a Swiss banker who "let it slip," the report says some $500 million in Nazi gold was on deposit in Switzerland, a charge Bern vigorously denies. Not all of it was taken from captured central banks. Some was gold from the jewelry and teeth of Jewish victims of death camps. The Germans then remelted it into ingots and camouflaged them with the stamp of the prewar Reichsbank. Despite knowledge of the magnitude of such actions, in 1946 the Allies signed an agreement under which the Swiss handed over only about $60 million...
...example, the ancient salt lakes in southwestern Texas in which Quetzalcoatlus was found contained lots of crustacean burrows but no bones from larger animals like crocodiles that might have fed a carrion eater. Some pterosaurs had beaks shaped like those of spoonbills. Pterodaustro had a mouthful of strainer-like teeth that it probably used to filter microscopic plankton from the water. Pteranodon is thought to have scooped up its prey and stashed it in a pelican-like throat pouch...