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This condition erodes the hope that supports the teeth and is a major cause of tooth loss. In the United States, an estimated 94 million people have periodontal disease, and it is one of humanity's most common infections...
Indeed, it is hard to reconcile this lean heavy hitter with memories of the chubby adolescent who came out of Eastern Europe more than a decade ago with an unreliable backhand, a gentle disposition that led her to give away games, and a sweet tooth for capitalism's material delights. Hard to reconcile this figure too with the bewildered defector of 1975, or the girl who cried in 1981 over her inability to win the U.S. Open. With astonishing grit she has overcome all that, while retaining, with people she trusts, the rather innocent and witty honesty that...
...Italian monk found in possession of alcohol to 25 lashes, 30 days in prison and a fine. Another decreed that a convicted thief should be hanged, his body publicly displayed for 30 minutes, then crucified. A third punished two men found guilty of shattering a victim's tooth by removing a tooth from each of the attackers. Such are the rulings that have characterized the first seven weeks since emergency courts were set up to enforce the Islamic law of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri. In September the President may make his system even more implacable, Western diplomats suspect...
...work one-third of the time in treating conditions ranging from headache and seasickness to wound pain. Levine and Fields of U.C.S.F. have reported that a placebo was capable of mimicking the effect of four to six milligrams of morphine, a mild dose, in patients suffering the pain of tooth extractions. U.C.S.F. researchers have also shown that the placebo effect is partly due to the stimulation of the body's endorphin system. When the action of endorphins is inhibited (by using a powerful opiate-blocking agent), placebos may not work...
...George Papalimberis, a Greek immigrant and owner of the Custom Barber Shop on Brattle Street, a mecca for area professors and politicians, says he has never pulled a customer's tooth...