Several of the book's 11 stories are set in Elk Tooth, a two-bit town of three bars and 80 residents, many with mouth-clogging names: Gilbert Wolfscale, Hard Winter Ulph, Wiregrass Cokendall.

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Copeland demonstrated the prosthetic hands at the firm's office in Hilliard, Ohio, showing how hand positions can also be remotely set with an iPad application using a blue-tooth connection.

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Almost 70% of P7 pupils have no obvious sign of tooth decay, beating a 60% target previously set by ministers.

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Allowing the private sector to set meter prices might be the best possible way to get to the right price in a city where politicians fight tooth and nail to keep parking cheap.

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