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Take Kathy Davis, 26. She works a 37 1/2-hour week, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, as a clerk for Oral B Laboratories, a toothbrush maker in Redwood City, Calif. Then, on Sunday afternoons and Monday and Tuesday evenings, she clocks an additional 13 hours selling sheets and towels at a branch of Macy's department store. "It takes a toll," says Davis of her 50 1/2-hour work week. Nonetheless, she expects to continue moonlighting for at least a year to pay off debts she ran up before losing a previous job in San Diego...
Then the breadwinner sighed and spoke of work. "A week or two of vacation. Be there on time. I can survive because I have my family, my boat and my house with us. My toothbrush stays in the same place, but I don't have to. We have no future. Zero. Plans for retirement, zero. Plans for college for the kids, zero. I can tell you maybe three months ahead, but no more. We realize thinking too much about tomorrow can destroy today." A dolphin plashed, and Michel said, "I have a very small house but a very big garden...
Thus I decided that I, Rutger Fury, would stand for office in the Soviet Union. After all, it was pretty unlikely I'd ever get elected President here. So I packed up my bags, a copy of The Prince and my toothbrush, and hightailed it to my local airport...
...sums for the top-of-the-line trappings of babyhood. At least a few infants are sleeping in 24-karat-gold-plated cribs, which Lewis of London, a New York City-based chain, sells for $1,995. Clown, a children's store in Chicago, offers a $42 sterling-silver toothbrush. And thousands of tots are being wheeled around in sleek Aprica strollers from Japan, which cost...
...ranges through time and twinges from the Maya Indians, who used tooth implants almost 1,400 years ago, to the latest microelectric techniques. What might have been a waiting-room time killer becomes instead a lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor of the porcelain jacket crown. Seldom has dentistry been so educational. Never has it been so painless...