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“There's no need to get technical about it,” said Ellie Phillips, a preventative dentist based in Austin. “But I would recommend noting whether it's something affecting the front teeth or the back of the mouth. Is it on the outside, which is on the cheek side, or is it on the tongue side?”Visual aids such as x-rays or images from an intraoral camera, or even simply looking in the mirror, can also help demystify what is happening in the mouth.Don't feel pressured to agree to anything, not even cleaning.Your dentist should be able to explain why particular problem areas need specific treatments, said Alyson Leffel, director of patient advocacy and social work at NYU College of Dentistry. And it's perfectly reasonable to ask them for time to research and think about your op...

After Iran's attack, Israel weighs its options.

The Biden administration will award up to $6.6 billion in grants to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the leading maker of the most advanced microchips, in an effort to bring some of the most cutting-edge semiconductor technologies to the United States.The funds, which come from the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, will help support the construction of TSMC's first major U.S. hub, in Phoenix. The company has already committed to building two plants at the site and will use some of the grant money to build a third plant in Phoenix, U.S. officials said Sunday. TSMC will also increase its total investments in the United States to more than $65 billion, up from $40 billion.Bringing the world's most sophisticated chip manufacturing to the United States has been a major ...

On Sunday the hospital waiting room was silent: there was no crowd of relatives, no sea of ​​patients. Israeli air defenses had just repelled a large-scale Iranian attack, recording only one serious casualty.But there was no sense that a crisis had been averted outside the pediatric intensive care unit at Soroka Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Instead, tension filled the air until the ward doors opened and a panting mother stepped out, her face contorted. Then raw emotion quickly took over as she collapsed into a chair, crying.While Israel suffered little significant damage overnight, this family suffered a devastating blow. Amina al-Hasoni, 7 years old, was clinging to life and was the only serious victim of the Iranian barrage. And if not for systemic inequ...

The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from the wealthy Sackler family, which controlled the company at the center of the opioid epidemic, and to remove the family's name from endowment funds.The petition filed Thursday by the Academy in Superior Court in Washington, D.C., seeks to change the terms of the donations so the institution can use them for scientific studies, projects and educational activities.The move follows a New York Times report last year that examined donations from several Sacklers, including an executive at Purdue Pharma, which made the painkiller OxyContin that has long been blamed for fueling the crisis of opioids that has claimed thousands of lives.“The notoriety of the Sackler name has made it i...

In front of cameras and a crowd of nearly 300 guests, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, rushed to the far end of a polo field in South Florida on Friday.“The Duke of Sussex could score a goal!” shouted an announcer over a loudspeaker at the Royal Salute Polo Challenge to Benefit Sentebale, attended by spectators including Serena Williams and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Netflix film crews. The streamer is producing a polo-related project starring Harry and Meghan that was announced Thursday and will be filmed in Wellington, an affluent area near Palm Beach known for its equestrian scene.The announcer and many in the audience groaned loudly when Harry missed his shot. He wore a blue and white shirt with the number 2 on it, along with the logo for Sentebale, a charity he founded to support ...

Computers seem methodical, deliberate, and utterly predictable. But they can also behave in completely random ways. As researchers build ever more powerful machines, a key question is: what role will randomness play?On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that this year's Turing Prize will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born theoretical computer mathematician and computer scientist who specializes in randomness.Often called the Nobel Prize in computing, the Turing Prize carries a prize of $1 million. The award is named after Alan Turing, the British mathematician who helped lay the foundations for modern computing in the mid-20th century.Other recent winners include Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, who...

The US military said it shot down dozens of drones and missiles that Iran fired at Israel on Saturday, while other allies affirmed support for Israel or pledged to help defend it.Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel's chief military spokesman, said Israel had intercepted most of the 200 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles launched by Iran with "some assistance" from its allies.Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said Saturday evening that U.S. forces intercepted dozens of missiles and attack drones launched at Israel from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. The United States provided no further details about its role in intercepting the attacks.Although President Biden has increasingly criticized the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is handling the campaign against Ha...

Yuxin Sun, a psychologist in Seattle, sees many clients in her associate practice who insist they are not perfectionists. “'Oh, I'm not perfect. I'm far from perfect,'” they tell her.But perfectionism isn't about being the best at a certain goal, Dr. Sun said, "it's the feeling of never getting to that point, of never feeling good enough, of never feeling adequate." And this can create a harsh inner voice that belittles and chastises us.Perfectionism is so pervasive that there is a test to measure it: the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. When researchers examined how college students responded to the scale's questions over time, they found that rates of perfectionism have increased in recent decades, skyrocketing between 2006 and 2022.Thomas Curran, an ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky likely changed the fate of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law lowering the conscription age to 25 from 27 this month, more than two years after Russia began its full-scale invasion .Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold back the much larger Russian army and desperately need to replenish their ranks. Now many of the young people who remain in Ukraine – thousands of others have fled the country illegally – worry about their future.New York Times reporters spoke with Ukrainian men who may be affected by the change."I'm worried, even a little scared"Yegor Khomchenko, the owner of a communal bakery in eastern Ukraine who turns 25 next month, said he had many friends who had gone to war.But he said his wife, Amelia, told him he would "do...