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Housing is certainly the biggest bone of contention in the bargaining. For their part, the Independents are likely to be trying to persuade Vellucci that his liberal stand on housing issues did not help him in last fall's election, where he received the fewest votes of the nine winners...
...many charwomen are buried in graveyards? How many generals? I once watched a cemetery being liquidated, and they were raking bones out. I looked at one of the big femurs and then at a little bone and said, "Man, this must have been a President and this must have been some poor bastard." The whole problem now is that you don't even know who the guy was, so why give a damn...
Cutter's Way. (Original title: Cutter and Bone.) A murder mystery set on the downslope of the California dream, flavorsomely written by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, directed by Ivan Passer and acted by Jeff Bridges and John Heard...
...Experts estimate that at puberty, when there is a spurt in bone growth, people require 1,200 mg of calcium daily (the equivalent of four glasses of milk or about 6 oz. of hard cheese). Postmenopausal women require 1,500 mg to offset the resorption process...
...Minn., believe they may have found a treatment that is as effective as estrogen but without its troubling side effects. In a twelve-year study, Dr. B. Lawrence Riggs and a team of Mayo physicians treated women with large doses of sodium fluoride combined with calcium. Sodium fluoride stimulates bone-forming cells to produce new bone faster than the old bone is resorbed. The Mayo researchers will now study the mechanical quality of the new bone, trying to determine if it is as strong as the tissue produced normally. Preliminary results indicate that the sodium fluoride treatment does restore...