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Which is why David After Dentist was destined for greatness from the get-go. The video, in which a young child copes with the disorienting effects of anesthesia after having a tooth removed, has ricocheted around the world at warp speed, amassing 8 million hits. In fact, the most surprising thing about the video's success was the outrage it provoked, as critics charged David's father with exploiting his son's obvious discomfort by sharing it with the world. YouTube viewers seethed; media-types parsed the inherent ethical dilemmas with Kantian nuance. The tempest subsided when eight-year...
...process Nelson is spearheading, there's a chance that some items that may fall out of the bill because of the compromise, such as the education provisions, could be reinserted in negotiations with the House over the final version. Nelson is aware of the risk but plans to fight tooth and nail to protect his deal. "The President wants bipartisan support," he noted. "And to get it, you have to maintain something comparable to what we're talking about...
...last night against Dartmouth (4-1, 0-1 Ivy League) the Crimson had to fight tooth and nail to pull out a 5-4 win over the Big Green...
...18th and 19th century Europeans and Americans who journeyed to spas and remote retreats hoping to cure ailments like tuberculosis. But surgery abroad is a fairly modern phenomenon. As health costs rose in the 1980s and 1990s, patients looking for affordable options started considering their options offshore. So-called "tooth tourism" grew quickly, with Americans traveling to Central American countries like Costa Rica for dental bridges and caps not covered by their insurance. (A large percentage of today's medical tourism is for dental work, as much as 40% by some estimates...
...Chopra's news on pain - desire's unfortunate partner down here in the phenomenal world - is equally cheering. In How to Know God, Chopra explains that for one who is enlightened, "a rotten tooth, a tumor or a detached retina" can each be seen as "a cluster of photons, a warped image made of light ... My identity floats in a quantum fog as photons wink in and out of existence. Observing these shifting patterns, I feel no attachment to any of them. They come and go; I am not even troubled by having no permanent home. It is enough...