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...University policeman apprehended the boys, reportedly aged 15 or 16, as they came out of a student's room on the second floor. After a scuffle in which the policeman lost a tooth and a chase down Barnard corridors and stairways, two of the youths were arrested, while the third managed to escape. Cambridge police were called in for assistance...
...advise your child to equate sugar with health and snacks with happiness," he complains. Choate's code would require that precise nutrient values be listed in food commercials for children; promotions based on an item's sugar content would have to warn viewers about the possibility of tooth cavities. The code would also ban more than four food ads an hour on children's programs and effectively bar all drug, medicine and even vitamin messages during youngsters' viewing time. Choate believes that vitamin ads can invite children to substitute capsules for a balanced diet and lead...
...less reason to rebel than Atkins, who had suffered through a troubled adolescence. The death sentences bothered some, like the pious John Baer, who had to do some delicate rationalizing: "In the trial the defense lawyers said that the Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth had gone out of effect nearly 2,000 years ago. I believe that although Jesus Christ came to show the way of love, we cannot live without the civil authorities until all people learn to live by love instead of hate...
...early-warning system: the cries of startled birds, the fetid scent of the deadly fer-de-lance, the click-click of an enraged wild boar. Xumu, the old chief of the Amahuaca, also instructed him in jungle medicine. The stem of the paka nixpo plant, when chewed, prevented tooth decay for years; the extract of the ayahuasca vine was especially prized for producing visions that, Córdova-Rios says, actually enhance human intelligence. After many adventures-hunting, harvesting rubber, procuring arms for the tribe-Córdova-Rios eventually tired of the Indians' pettiness and "musky odor...
...little gap in the history of man that we are trying desperately to complete. But it is only part of the whole story-the expedition brought back ten tons of fossils. As an individual specimen it could be better. After all, it is only half a jaw and a tooth...