On Monday, Jan 31, 2005, at 04:02 Asia/Tokyo, Ashley Moran wrote:
>
> Thomas, can you clarify this- I think I must have misread you?  An
> agency you worked for insisted that everyone on its books had to have a
> perfectly healthy part of their body removed?  Have I missed something
> here?  What exactly was the agency's rationale behind this?
>
> Ashley
>

Exactly. The US gov, when I was in the Peace Corps. They were sending
us way out into the boonies and didn't want to worry about teeth
exploding. I thought it was silly then, and still do. But I was the
only one in the whole program with 32 teeth, because my dentist refused
to pull them. I still got them 20 years later.