Toothpaste fills cavities without drilling

Thursday, February 24, 2005 A paste containing synthetic tooth enamel can seal small cavities without drilling. Kazue Yamagishi and colleagues at the FAP Dental Institute in Tokyo say that the paste can repair small cavities in 15 minutes. Currently, fillers don’t stick to such small cavities so dentists must drill bigger holes. Hydroxyapatite crystals, of…

Riots in Île-de-France : 70 arrested after 200 cars burned

Friday, July 15, 2005 About 200 cars were burned by young people on the night of July 13 in Île-de-France, the metropolitan area of Paris. As the police cars arrived, youths began to pelt the vehicles with rocks, firecrackers and bottles. Rioters broke store windows at Argenteuil. Police used flash-balls and smoke grenades. The riots…

Message in bottle travels from UK to Australia

Friday, January 20, 2006 A message in a bottle thrown into the sea by a four-year-old girl in England has been found 9,000 miles away in Western Australia. Alesha Johnson threw the bottle into the water at Morecambe Bay, Lancashire last July, enclosing her Heysham address, and a picture of herself. The note read: “If…

Wikinews attends a ‘Dialogue with Decision Makers’

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Two weeks ago, on February 1st, it was the second day of the national environmental Focus the Nation teach-in. One of these events, which took place at the same time at other educational institutions across the country, took place in the city of Lynn at the campus of North Shore Community…

Officials admit that China faked part of Olympics opening ceremony

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 File:BeijingOlimpicGames2008-08-08.jpg Officials representing the Beijing Olympic Games in China have confirmed that the organizations in charge of the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Summer Olympics may have faked at least two parts of the production. The ceremony lasted a total of four and a half hours. It has been revealed that…

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