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...further raise only if she is promoted to a supervisory position -- and that would take her away from her test tubes and retorts. A civil servant usually can be fired only for the grossest incompetence or insubordination, and the process takes about a year. Many a manager grits his teeth and suffers a goof-off in silence...
...person, any writer. The surprise is that McNally, 54, took his own dare. He is, after all, best known for the zippy romance Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (which became a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino) and the funny-poignant Lips Together, Teeth Apart (which is now playing in Los Angeles). Among his dozens of plays are daft farces (The Ritz, Bad Habits), an Emmy-winning TV play (Andre's Mother) and a clever sitcom (Mama Malone), but nothing so eloquent, capacious and true as A Perfect Ganesh...
...drug therapies can apparently produce dramatic turnarounds. Rosie New, a 34-year-old Houston resident, was in danger of losing her front teeth when she received Actisite on an experimental basis. Two weeks later, the inflammation had disappeared. Her follow-up treatment included applying the powerful prescription mouthwash Peridex to her dental floss to make sure the bacteria did not reclaim any territory. "It's a major difference in what my gums were like," New says. The deterioration of her jawbone stopped, and her smile was saved. Says she: "It's scary, the thought of losing your front teeth...
...thing is, never mind the old expression that you're digging your grave with your teeth; there is growing suspicion, not to mention evidence, that our national-fitness fixation has come off the hinge, that there are those among us who are guiltlessly, remorselessly, allowing themselves to kick off their Nikes, sink deep into a couch and stay there. "You used to be quite a dish," said a middle-aged wag upon meeting a former lover. "Now you're quite the tureen...
...Maya filed their teeth (it's unclear whether they used an anesthetic), sometimes into a T shape and sometimes to a point. They also inlaid their teeth with small, round plaques of jade or pyrite. According to Coe, young men painted themselves black until marriage and later engaged in ritual tattooing and scarring...