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Note to readers: if a story's headline is built around words like "anticipates" "expects," "awaits" or "braces," odds are good there's not much actual news in it.
Whenever Schultes was at the Botanical Museum, he opted a striking costume: suspenders (braces to him), a crimson four-in-hand, and a starched, spotless, snow-white lab coat.
But a fillip of clichés--the braces under the smile, the self-conscious glance downward--brings the kid back for the moment.
This resulted from a far-sighted 1950s Energy Department program to recycle scrap metal from nuclear weapons facilities into forms that could be used in household products, jewelry, and even children's braces.
One drowned her paralyzed son by pushing him off a canoe on a family outing, leaving him and his 50 pounds of metal leg braces to sink to the bottom."