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...animals crack the ribs of their prey to get to the vital organs. Coolly, with utter confidence, a mature lioness--the oldest of the seven-member pride--approaches. A 3-year-old male tries to scare her off with a snarl, but she lunges at him, baring her teeth and biting at his neck. After a modest show of resistance, he retreats and, in a final display of submission, turns tail and slinks off into the sunset. She takes his place at the kill, tearing chunks from the giraffe's neck. A jackal watches from a distance, hoping...
BEFORE THE 1972 OLYMPICS, YOU APPLIED TO DENTAL SCHOOL. DID YOU EVER THINK OF GOING BACK TO CLEAN TEETH? I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities. I did some television and speaking engagements, and things just went from there...
...refer to that long weekend as "the dreaded 48 hours." It's like going to the dentist to have several teeth pulled. You're in agony, and you know you're going to feel better afterward, but the thought of doing it is just terrible. By the end, Moss had created Eliza Doolittle for me, and I had to some degree found...
...Grin, Just Bear It Few people are happy with their passport photos, and following guidance from the U.K. Passport Service (UKPS), Britons won't be allowed to look happy in them either. The UKPS has banned photos showing passport applicants smiling. Apparently a glimpse of teeth will disrupt the machinery used to read new biometric ePassports to be introduced in 2005. Don't say cheese...
...personal dimension. Raising his right hand from the leather blotter on his dark wooden desk, he traces a faint crease in his skin running from his left temple down to the corner of his mouth. "Thirty-four stitches," he says, then spreads his jaws and taps his upper teeth. "Not real." The scars are reminders of a 1988 Bangkok accident in which Nikorn's car was sideswiped by a drunken 18-year-old driving a pickup truck...