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...starting with our toothpastes. Today fluoride is an ingredient in most brands of dentifrice on the market. Because toothpaste is designed to be spit out, it's a more efficient way to get the decay-fighting ingredient where it is needed and nowhere else. Even some dentists, who see firsthand the benefits of fluoridation, wonder whether people who get fluoride from toothpaste should get it in their drinking water as well...
...work monitoring elections in China's countryside, I witnessed this situation firsthand near the city of Jinan, where a farmer who had been elected by villagers to be their chief was beaten up by people suspected to be cronies of the local government's defeated candidate. Similar events unfolded this summer, when farmers in the Pearl River Delta village of Taishi tried to orchestrate a recall motion to oust a village chief. Although the villagers had the law on their side and had collected the requisite number of signatures, their efforts failed...
...army used to fear to tread, camera-toting visitors now arrive in a steady stream, and former combatants are among a range of people figuring out how to make a legitimate buck from the mayhem they once caused. Companies set up by ex-republican and ex-loyalist prisoners offer firsthand accounts of the bad old days in their warring neighborhoods. The onetime enemies will even - quietly - share clients. "Thousands of people are coming here every week," says Caoimhín Mac Giolla Mhín from the Irish Republican Army prisoners' group, Coiste, as another bus passes along the Catholic...
...hair brushes, of re-creating the world they saw on parchment." And indeed, in all 35 miniatures that are assembled, it's the details-the facial expressions of the cavaliers and ladies on a hunt, and even their dogs-that give the viewer the sensation of witnessing the scenes firsthand. tel: (31-24) 3608805; www.gebroedersvanlimburg.nl
...hair brushes, of re-creating the world they saw on parchment." And indeed, in all 35 miniatures that are assembled, it's the details - the facial expressions of the cavaliers and ladies on a hunt, and even their dogs - that give the viewer the sensation of witnessing the scenes firsthand. tel: (31-24) 3608805; www.gebroedersvanlimburg.nl