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...Angeles, demurred when told by an orthodontist that her only hope was to have reconstructive surgery that would involve breaking her jaw. "He said I wasn't even going to look the same," she recalls in horror. Dentists and patients alike hope such drastic prescriptions will soon disappear. Eventually, they say,temporomandibular-joint disorder should be a jawbreaker in name only...
...there are no symptoms until cervical cancer is advanced, Pap smears are the only way to detect the malignancy early. Some gynecologists recommend the test every six months for women with more than one sexual partner, and more frequently for those who have had warts. Even when the warts disappear spontaneously or are medically removed, the underlying viral infection -- and therefore the risk of cancer -- may persist. Hoping to reduce that risk, doctors are testing the antiviral substance interferon in adults with severe warts, and efforts to produce a vaccine are also under way. But no solution is close...
...assigned a nine or ten, while a lighter stroke becomes a five or six. These numbers can then be manipulated to filter out "noise" and bring out hidden features in the text. For example, all the pixels with high numbers can be changed to zeros to make them disappear, while the lighter pixels representing parts of actual letters can be darkened by boosting their values from five...
...result is walls lined with rectangular bindings, multi-colored, multi-shaped, leaving the impression of geometrical shapes--blocks really--sitting on rows of sagging shelves that shrink into the distance down the wall. Kelly recalls instances when books lose their magic amid this anonymity, when their pages and ink disappear into solid volumes of useless weight...
...know [the uncounted citizens] are born and that they go to school, but after that they disappear for about 20 years and resurface in census counts much later," says the Princeton graduate...