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...losing. For every time you are triumphant, surviving the onslaught of countless bad guys, there are a thousand times where you can’t quite anticipate the movement of that horrible alien-creature-thing, and you slowly fall to the ground, a red film covering the screen as teeth, claws, and chainsaw blades meet your flesh. While it may have been impossible for the film to include “game over” screens, it could have made an effort to emulate the character’s frustration and futility in fighting these seemingly invincible monsters...
...parsing risks, Bellingham is also weighing an undisputed side effect of ingestion. The CDC recently announced that 32% of American children now have some form of dental fluorosis, a white or brown mottling of the teeth. U.S. health officials see it as a cosmetic issue, largely caused by ill-advised swallowing of toothpaste, while fluoride critics say it 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...
...Mellon Foundation in New York. Each year, the Mellon Foundation gives five humanities scholars the Distinguished Achievement Award to pursue research over a period of three years.McCormick asked for a two-year deferment and has since been planning a series of interdisciplinary projects—including researching isotopes and teeth, making old Latin texts accessible, and starting a summer internship program—which he will begin to execute this year. Wednesday’s lecture—led by Thomas Calligaro, the head physicist of the world-renowned Louvre Museum, and Peter Perin, the director of the French Musee...
...parallel of the title character in Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child,” with his mussed hair, small lanky frame, and piercing eyes. Like the boy of that classic film, he swings his limbs in happiness and flashes his teeth in anger, expressing each emotion to its extreme. Still, says Torres, that energy made him a force of nature who was sometimes difficult to restrain. The film’s first wardrobe person had a nervous breakdown and quit the film after working with Carlos.He does, however, have a sensitivity that sticks...
...Place the tip of your tongue against the ridge behind and above your front teeth, and keep it there throughout the exercise...