Word: toothful
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...anyone afflicted with a sweet tooth, Government rulings in the past decade have been decidedly sour. First the Food & Drug Administration barred cyclamates because they might bring on bladder cancer. Then after saccharin was also linked to bladder cancer, the agency proposed banning that sweetener, an action averted only by an act of Congress. Last week the FDA broke new ground, announcing its approval of a low-calorie sugar substitute called aspartame...
...kids any more. They are losing hair and getting fat and sighting down the road toward middle age. Why is it that so many of them, so many of those Americans who fought the war, still return to it with sharp, deep, sometimes obsessive memories?tonguing the bad tooth, re-enacting the most vivid playlets of pain and horror? Why can't they let it go? Bad war. Sorry about that. Now get on with it, son, you're pushing...
...inability to recall the spot where she took the shot. Paul Kurtz, 55, professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, reckons that the locals may just be feathering a Ness. "It's about as real," says he, "as Bigfoot, UFOs and the tooth fairy...
...this devastation towers the still threatening mountain itself. Because the explosion literally blew the top off Mount St. Helens, its height has been reduced from 9,677 ft. to 8,300. Its shape has changed from a symmetrical, Fujiyama-like cone to a lopsided pyramid that resembles a broken tooth. Occasionally it still puffs smoke and steam...
...most extensive use of demineralized bone taken from humans (and possibly some day from animals) may be to treat accident victims or people who are losing jawbone because of periodontal disease or tooth loss. But the researchers caution that the procedure is still experimental and must undergo more clinical tests before it comes into widespread use. Says Mulliken: "We just don't know how strong the bone is going to be." Adds Oral Surgeon Leonard Kaban: "We are trying to go very slowly with this. We don't want it to be a case of the emperor...