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I'm not a dentist, but I have seen a child's skull with the mandible dissected at a museum. You can see a whole lot of adult teeth lined up under the baby ones.

I was looking for a picture of this on the net, but couldn't find one quickly on google images. But take a look at this picture Baby teeth and the x-ray on this dental site.

So I'd guess the wisdoms are just waiting under the baby teeth to pop up. Just a little longer than the others.

So Colombia and Brazil, they all get along great, they're all Americans just having a big ol' party down there? Or do they stop you at the border and ask you for your passport and a bribe?
I call bullshit.
"Traditionally, Colombia's diplomatic and economic interests in the rest of Latin America were limited mainly to its neighboring rival, Venezuela. Colombia did not begin to identify with and pay more attention to other Latin American countries and to the English-speaking Caribbean until the mid-1970s."
Either way, the US has much more right to claim to be Americans, as we've been using the name to describe ourselves as such for a much longer time.

Right, nobody else has any titanium ore.

http://www.nap.edu/openbook/POD140/html/23.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium#Occurrence
http://reference.allrefer.com/world/countries/sier ra-leone/geography.html
http://reference.allrefer.com/world/countries/indi a/geography.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ in.html
http://www.mixcorp.com/stcharles.htm
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Latestprod ucts/582B60B066B26906CA2570DE00173BBD?opendocument

Right, nobody else has any titanium ore.

http://www.nap.edu/openbook/POD140/html/23.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium#Occurrence
http://reference.allrefer.com/world/countries/sier ra-leone/geography.html
http://reference.allrefer.com/world/countries/indi a/geography.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ in.html
http://www.mixcorp.com/stcharles.htm
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Latestprod ucts/582B60B066B26906CA2570DE00173BBD?opendocument

Several famous Soviet movies, including for instance the classic "Beware of the Automobile" (a comedy from 1966) focused on crime and criminals, so while crimes may not have been widespread in the USSR, I think they were prevalent enough to be in the public consciousness. The government didn't publish statistics, but all indications are that petty theft at least was widespread.

It's not just white spots. Severe flourosis looks pretty horrible, and flouride poisoning can have other serious results, in adults and children.

Second, the variation in pricing has to do with contracts between doctors and the insurance. As in the insurance will say that we will not pay more than X dollars for this product or this service and this number will varry by insurance. In order to bill the insurance the doctor must agree to these terms or not bill the insurance. Any doctor is free to do that but would then have to charge a patient directly and would thus lose out on potential business. This drop can be far greater the larger the insurance group, so large insurance groups can force doctors to lower their pricing.

Some doctors opt not to do this, so they will not be listed in the insurances directory. They will then be free to charge as they see fit. Also, doctors can form groups and thus gain levarage over insurance companies for billing purposes. If members of a certain specialty in an area belong to a select number of groups, the insurance companies may pay higher prices or risk not having enough qualified physicians to service those they are covering.

btw, if you find this disturbing just think of this. In medicine, you often pay for procedures that fail. Could you imagine going to Lexus and them saying only 2 out of 5 cars will actually drive, but you can not test drive the cars and once purchased, there are no refunds, but they can service your new car for additional costs. That essentially happens with many services in medicine (although a big difference is that in medicine, not getting a procedure may be more detrimental than the 40% chance of failure)... anyway, just wanted to say that the medicine world really does operate by a seperate set of rules that may not be fair, but are not easily comparable to say just purchasing a watch (and you would not be purchasing this watch without good medical indication unless you like wasting money).

So, In Firefox tab A, I have Google and tab B is Yahoo. Both searched on Kyzyl.

Results (pleae pay attention because htmling this was a pain...):

Yahoo's first 5 entries:

* All Russia Hotels All Russian Hotels - We offer discount hotel reservation services online in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Russia, Ukraine, CIS and Baltic. www.allrussiahotels.com

* Tuva Travel Kyzyl city is the capital of Tuva Republic (Russia) Kyzyl city is positioned right in the center of Asia, which is proudly claimed by a local monument specifically dedicated to this fact. www.sokoltours.com

WEB RESULTS

1. Wikipedia: Kyzyl
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Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia's article on 'Kyzyl' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyzyl

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2. Weather Underground: Kyzyl, Russia Forecast
Open this result in new window Find the Weather for any City, State or ZIP Code, or Airport Code or Country. Email. Password. Maps. United States. International. Information. Refinance Rates. GoTo Meeting. Kyzyl Singles. Hosting Companies. Online deals! Vitamins. Internet Mall ... Updated: 8:00 AM KRAST on August 02, 2005. Observed at Kyzyl, Russia (History) Elevation: 2064 ft / 629 m ... Coming soon: Flash Stickers. Kyzyl, 63 F / 17 C ...
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3. AllRefer.com - Kyzyl (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
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3. AllRefer.com reference and encyclopedia resource provides complete information on Kyzyl, CIS And Baltic Political Geography. Includes related research links. ... By Alphabet : Encyclopedia A-Z - K. Kyzyl, CIS And Baltic Political Geography ... Kyzyl or Kizil[both: kizil'] Pronunciation Key, city (1989 pop ...
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Now, for the first five Google Results on Kyzyl:

Kyzyl'-administrative center of Republic of Tuva, Russia Kyzyl' Republic of Tuva,
|Central-Chernozemny| ... Republic Capital:, Kyzyl. Capital Population:, 91000( at 01/01/94) ...
members.tripod.com/~argun/kyzyl.htm
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Kyzyl on Encyclopedia.com
Kyzyl or Kizilboth: kzl, city (1989 pop. 85000), capital of Tuva Republic, S Siberian Russia, on the Yenisei River. It services motor transport and has ...
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Kyzyl Travel Information. Photos, Stories and Diaries about Kyzyl
Sustainable Tourism for independent travellers (travelers) and backpackers. www.worldsurface.com/browse/location.asp?locationi d=5654
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Kyzyl, Tuva, Russia current local time
Kyzyl, Tuva, Russia - before placing a telephone call or making travel plans for a flight or hotel, get the current local time provided by ...
www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_RU-TY.aspx ?city=Kyzyl
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Could you please provide a reference for how the names ought to be pronounced? Every single pronunciation guide I could find on-line said, to the last one, that the pronunciation of "Zeus" is [ZOOS]. I've had an interest in Greek Mythology for some time, and I've never come across any other pronunciation. If there actually is a pronunciation that is more correct than that, I am very curious to know what it is.

Here are a few references I found when attempting to find a pronunciation guide:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Diction ary&va=Zeus&x=0&y=0
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/z/zeus.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0853377.htm l
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002110/zeus.htm
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/z/z0012500.html
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/Z/Zeus. html
http://www.gods-heros-myth.com/godpages/zeus.html
http://www.hyperdic.net/dic/zeus.htm
http://www.uwf.edu/english/lanier/Pronunc.html

No you cannot be charged with distribution, but you can be charged as an accessory before the fact, possibly even as an accomplice.

CAUTION, I saw the idiot with a red hat at the corner of 15th and K selling crack, he must be stopped, please avoid him at all costs and call the cops!!! Can I be charged for that also?

That depends on whether the person you told buys crack or calls the police.

India's economy is one of the most protectionist on earth. So until Indians start buying American stuff, I am going to resist outsourcing,

TB or not TB, that is the consumption.
To cough, to cough!

I should be scared that people actual pay attention to what I say around here. One day somebody is going to walk in and ask me about all my crazy views that I spew on slashdot.

The day somebody calls me Dr. AC, I'll hang it up. :)

AC

From the looks of things, it's only about twice as deadly as isopropanol for acute exposure, although it appears to cause far more problems before that point.

However, with this bullshit, you wonder how they would fair now...

There we were; three against a thousand. We fought them for seven days and nights as the battle waxed and waned; neither side yielding. We exhausted our ammunition and were too far out to get support, so we fixed bayonets and charged. The fighting that ensued was fierce hand to hand combat and finally we overwhelmed them. They would have to be the toughest three we ever fought.

It is also more accurate to say that the earth and moon together revolve about their common center of mass, rather than saying that the moon revolves about the earth. This common center of mass lies beneath the earth's surface, about 3,000 mi (4800 km) from the earth's center.

Even if true, what the hell should the Pentagon have done? Go off and start a war without orders? Should we have declared war on Syria and invaded whan Assad, Sr. levelled the city of Hama? Because the military of the US is under civilian control.

And the only reason we "supported" Saddam was he certainly seemed better in 1981 than Khomeini. Remember, the US never gave him anywhere near the backing the French did - who stood with Saddam at the Osirik reactor ground-breaking ceremony?

Man! There are so many things wrong with your post I don't even know where to begin.

It will only accelerate their impoverishment and send them tumbling the way of the USSR. Their economy is about as bad off as the old Soviet Union, full of positive reports to keep ministers from being executed.

The economies of Russia (past and present) and China are fundamentally different in many ways. First, China's economy has been evolving toward capitalism for more than 20 years since Deng Xiao Ping was in charge. As with any kind of change of this magnitude, growing pains are to be expected. A hickup every now and then should be expected. Banking scandals? We've got Enron, Worldcom, Martha Stewrt, etc. No big deal. Regardless, the point is that it is all moving forward at a managable pace. For a little historic perspective, it is worth noting that China was actually one of the Anchors that kept the Asian Economy from crashing even harder many years ago. The Soviet Union, had no control over the economic changes that occured in the aftermath of the breakup. It was basically a free for all, everyone for themselves kind of situation.

They've got entire villages infected with AIDS that are about to disappear

Like urban legends, this is just one of those things that won't die. The villagers who contracted AIDS by selling their blood has been reported so much by major media, it feels like O.J. Simpson all over again. Let it go, there's no point in beating a dead horse. At the very least, the article details medical aid being given to the villagers. That is a great deal better than how US treated many southern blacks who were intentially infected with syphillis a few decades ago.

They ignore it all to produce a few gems like cavitation torpedoes, a space program, and a couple of capitalist sector cities.

You need to get your facts straight. Cavitation torpedoes are not Chinese, they are Russian . With regards to "a couple of capitalist sector cities." - I was born in a part of China which when I left could very properly be described as the boonies. Rice paddies and water buffalos everywhere. As little as 10 years ago, , everything I had known was gone. The rural quietness bulldozed over and replaced with freeways and automobiles. Modernization is not just happening in Shanghai and ShenZhen, it is happening to the whole country. A great deal of the news you get from the American press in really no better than supermart tabloid reporting. I guess no matter how outlandish it is, there are still those who would swallow it all hook line and sinker.

Mandrake is a generic word like Windows. It is a kind of plant.

The fastest growing distro could only be Mandrake . Distributions can increase in popularity or number - but technically they can't grow like a plant or animal. A bit pedantic but what the hey...

Yes, India shouldn't get aid, since:

1: India gives developmental assistance (mostly to neighboring countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan).

2: It's a creditor to the IMF (International Monetary Fund).

3: It's written off loans for some desparately poor countries (mostly in Africa).

4: Foreign Aid is a very small part of India's GDP, at least when compared to Israel and Egypt. It's symbolic for India more than anything else.

5: America _now_ accounts for an insignificant amount of India's foreign aid:

"The United States accounted for 8.6 percent of all of the aid India received from independence through FY 1988, but for only 0.7 percent in FY 1989 and 0.6 percent in FY 1990." source

In the 70's and 80's, 80% of the USSR's hard-currency earnings came from oil exports. The Ruble was worthless outside the USSR, so it depended on oil trade to afford to import grain. In the 80's, the USSR imported nearly 40 million tons of grain a year from non-communist countries, including a lot from the US.

The USSR definately industrialized, which is clearly what also happened in South Korea and the other Asian Tigers. The difference is that the Asian Tigers industrialized to produce manufactured products in demand by the rest of the world, such as radios, cars, tractors, etc.

The USSR, on the other hand, did not manufacture much for export, except weapons. The USSR did have an excellent industrial capability to produce weapons both small (AK-47) and large (nuclear submarines, ICBMs). What they couldn't do is manufacture consumer products that would sell to export markets. The consumer exports of the USSR were oil, fur, and vodka.

The reason is clear, isolated from market forces, how could Soviet factories get market messages to make high-quality manufactured products for consumers and businesses? On the other hand, if you angered the military with a sub-standard product, you would end up in Siberia. So the weapons were top-notch. And the Russians knew good Vodka. Automobiles, on the other hand, they didn't do too well at.

I believe the Dollar will encounter some mild devaluation over the next 12 months, but not as much as you might think. Increasing returns on the stock market will return Dollars from overseas back to the US as the economy strengthens, reducing the oversupply of foreign Dollars.

A mild devaluation will actually help the US trade deficit by making US products slightly more competitive in pricing to foreign products. But I don't think Dollar devaluation is a good idea for the following reason:

You are right, if the Dollar massively devalues, that is the end of all world economics, because the Dollar is the reserve currency of the planet. Every central and private bank will fail.

Because he WASN'T like the other hard line "commies." Gorby was the first of the next generation of the Communist (Bolshevik) party. Here, what follows is the birth and death dates of the rulers (since the name of the post changed a lot) of the USSR.

Lenin 1870-1924
Stalin 1879-1953 (note this period)
Khrushchev 1894-1971
Brezhnev 1906-1982
Andropov 1914-1984
Cherenko 1911-1985
Gorby 1931-????

Note that everyone up to Gorby was not only alive during the Lenin years but was policialy indoctrinated in the Stalin years. Gorby came too late for that. Born in 1931, Gorby's school years got him nearly all the way through the Stalin period.

Consequently, Gorbachev was really a product of the Khrushchev years rather than Stalin. Realize that Khrushchev's break with Stalin (as mentioned in grandparent post) was not looked upon favorably by the hard line commies you refer to and their move on power following his tenure instituted a period of reactionary extremism.

Gorbachev then, represented a fundamental ideological break with the old hard line elements in the party. If Reagan (note I'm fixing my spelling. All you ACs who bitched about it clearly didn't read the sig) had really been the deciding factor in the fall of the Soviet Union one would expect to see a re-centering of the political climate under Cherenko, Brezhnev, and Andropov all of whom held power during Reagan's first term of office. Instead, what you see is the exact opposite. These three are Stalinists they don't move to the center, but rather further to the extremes.

Reagan's evil empire musings and his overtly hostile attitude towards the Soviet Union weren't terribly helpfull in the big picture. In fact Reagan's saber rattling nearly plunged us into thermonuclear war during the Able Archer exercises, a little publicized intelligence/war-game debacle that got way out of hand.

As for the spending of the 1980s, the United States dug itself into a multi trillion dollar hole in the process. Most of that money went into the military industrial complex. While I've no real issue beefing up the military (as having the 2nd best isn't good for much) its a real pity that some of the social programs so badly needed in this country go un-funded so we can sink another billion into systems both unneeded and unwanted by the Pentagon.

Getting back to the point... Gorby did what he did because he saw the ruin being perpetuated on his country by the lies and secrecy of the Stalinists. He genuinely believed he could redeem the Soviet Government and put to rest some of the injustices done in the name of the Party under Stalin and his followers. He was wrong.

When the dust settled Bush and Reagan got to grin at the world and tell it what a great job they did because no one was left to disagree with them.

Most Europeans (except the British) have first hand experience of war and real lack of freedom.

That's not true. Most europeans have no concept of war. Most of those that have experienced the privations of war are dead (except in those countries that can't resist a good civil war).

Countries like the US and Britain think it is a good idea to invade a defenceless country and even worse, try to make out that those that do not want to kill defenceless people are cowards

Oh please, get off your high horse. France didn't get involved because it was still owed a lot of money from arms sales in the 1980's and illegal sales in the 1990's.(the war referred to in the following quote is the Iran/Iraq war)

In 1987 the Paris-based Le Monde estimated that, between 1981 and 1985, the value of French arms transfers to Iraq was US$5.1 billion, which represented 40 percent of total French arms exports. Paris, however, was forced to reschedule payment on most of its loans to Iraq because of Iraq's hard-pressed wartime economy and did so willingly because of its longer range strategic interests...French military sales to Iraq were important for at least two reasons. First, they represented high-performance items. Iraq received attack helicopters, missiles, military vehicles, and artillery pieces from France. Iraq also bought more than 400 Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles and at least 200 AS30 laserguided missiles between 1983 and 1986. Second, unlike most other suppliers, France adopted an independent and unambiguous arms sales policy towards Iraq. France did not tie French arms commitments to Baghdad's politico-military actions...(source)

More recently, France helped move missile material from China: "The French connection - brokering the deal among the Chinese producer, the Syrian land transporter and the Iraqi buyer - is no great secret to the world's arms merchants. French intelligence has long been aware of it. The need for a French export license as well as UN sanctions approval may have been averted by disguising it as a direct offshore sale from China to Syria." (source)

France didn't get involved because it was owed money and knew once the deals were exposed wouldn't receive a franc.

That is why countries like France and Germany do not want to go to war for oil.

Really? So by implication the US and GB went to war for oil. Can you support this? I'm not aware of any "oil dividend" either nation has received...no spoils of war. You shouldn't spout rhetoric unless you can support it.

The real reason france and germany didn't go to war is because going to war would interfere with vacation time.

Germany has the shortest work week of any industrialized nation in the world. Depending upon the source, the average German work week ranges between 35 and 38.5 hours. In addition, Germany has a number of national holidays, which decrease the calendar work year that already includes between four and six weeks vacation. (source)

Of course, the french have that 35 hour work week with a similar amount of vacation time. See, that's why all the useful things like the Internet and computer you are using and the airplane you take on vacation were invented in the US.