Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this bear finally staggers, then stretches out on the ice like a giant sheep dog. The helicopter sets down, and biologist Gerald Garner advances, kicking the bear in the behind to make sure it is immobilized. A swivel of its head and a flashing of teeth warn Garner that there is plenty of defiance left in this 272-kg (600-lb.) carnivore. With a syringe, he injects more drug. At last the head droops, and Garner can proceed. Around the bear's neck he fastens a vinyl collar containing a computer that will send data to a satellite, allowing scientists...
...Iraq's antiaircraft batteries were made in the U.S.S.R. and manned by personnel trained by Soviet advisers. Yet the coalition's fighter-bombers and cruise missiles achieved perfect surprise, then set about to clobber Iraq with near impunity for six weeks. There was much cursing and gnashing of teeth among the Soviet officers glued to the tube in Moscow...
...Melville doesn't make my teeth hurt. Fulghum belongs in greeting cards...
...were right. I didn't get it. The thing that really brought home to me the serious problems that American families face was the realization that I was better off than most. I had a loving and supportive husband and a very decent income. I was armed to the teeth with advanced degrees. If I was having so much trouble, what about all those women without choices...
...same Florida dentist, David Acer. But the fact remains that it did happen, despite the odds and with devastating results. Already one of Acer's patients, Kimberly Bergalis, is near death; her plight and her understandable fury have moved millions to feel insecure when they go for teeth cleaning or an annual physical exam. Nearly 6,800 health-care workers in the U.S. are known to have AIDS -- including 170 dentists and dental hygienists, 730 physicians and more than 1,450 nurses. Should they tell patients? Should they get out of medicine altogether...