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...from school lunches and Head Start to child care and college grants. Even his own No Child Left Behind Act is underfunded to the tune of $9 billion, leaving local communities to scramble to meet yet one more set of unfunded regulatory mandates. To the wealthy, he's the Tooth Fairy. To kids, the dentist. Sorry, Mr. President. Maybe next year...
...hour, tooth-loosening drive west of Gangtok, Sikkim's capital, the monastery is at the center of a divisive and sometimes violent battle within Tibetan Buddhism's Kagyupa (Black Hat) sect: Who is the rightful 17th Karmapa? Is it the New Delhi Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje? Or is it the Tibetan Karmapa-Ugyen Trinley Dorje-endorsed by the Dalai Lama...
...investigator happened upon the case of the missing photographers-who had not been counted among the military MIA-and a further two years before a JTF team started excavating Site 2062, sifting through earth and, in JTF parlance, "broken aircraft s___" for the tiniest bone fragment or tooth. Single bicuspids have been enough to identify some MIA, notes Pyle, as Vietnam was the first war in which the U.S. government kept dental records of every soldier. But Site 2062, a remote hillside near the Ho Chi Minh Trail, divulged few secrets beyond that mangled Leica and a sports watch that...
Kids who lose a baby tooth will often put it under their pillow for the Tooth Fairy. But Julia Shi's dad Songtai is a dentist and a medical researcher at the National Institutes of Health. When Julia, then 6, shed a tooth recently, they noticed that a little piece of red pulp was still attached. That gave him an idea, and the next time she lost a tooth, he placed it in a liquid used to culture cells. Back at the lab, he extracted the pulp and found that it contained a number of stem cells, those special progenitor...
...into bone, nerve and fat cells, limiting their usefulness. They do, however, grow more quickly than stem cells found in full-grown adults. It's too early to suggest that children should start banking their baby teeth--and Shi for now has all the teeth he needs. Still, the Tooth Fairy must be very proud...