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(CNN) -- After the fire, all that was left of Jonathan Reyes' massive Hot Wheels collection was a piece of metal that once was part of a toy car.

Jonathan Reyes shows off his new Hot Wheels cars sent by Mattel after they heard his own toys were lost in a fire.

But on Wednesday, the arrival of two cardboard boxes at his grandparents' house sent 7-year-old Jonathan flying to the door, said his mother, Jan Reyes.

Mattel, the company that makes Hot Wheels, sent racetracks, play sets, stickers, folders, T-shirts, hats and hundreds of toy cars.

"He was speechless," Reyes said. "He didn't say anything. He just smiled. He opened it up. It was like Christmas. All of us were bawling, crying. He was so happy."

Jonathan, who has autism, meticulously collected more than 500 Hot Wheels. But all that was destroyed when his Sylmar home, along with hundreds of other structures, were burned down by wildfires in Los Angeles County.

Toys are like anchors for children with autism, psychologists say. They like to play with the same toys, eat familiar foods and be in a consistent environment. When faced with unpredictable changes, they can feel frustrated or anxious and become disruptive, according to experts.

On Tuesday, Jonathan and his parents searched for his toys among piles of debris, but they found only a piece of a Hot Wheels car and a rusty tricycle. The rest of Jonathan's toys were reduced to ashes.  Watch the Reyes family return to their home. Â»

Mattel, with headquarters in El Segundo, California, wanted to get involved after hearing on CNN that Jonathan, who had been collecting Hot Wheels since he was 2, had lost everything. Looking for hope in the ashes.

"We wanted to send as many as possible," said Deborah Dicochea, associate manager of the Mattel Children's Foundation, which sends toys globally to children affected by crisis. "With autistic children, they like sorting them, arranging them."

Offers of toys, a computer, resources to connect to other families dealing with autism and financial donations have been pouring into the family.

"It's wonderful, because he literally lost every toy he had," Reyes said. "He had a personal attachment to all of his toys. Part of autism is they have a little connection to everything and his biggest thing was to his cars. For Mattel to send him the cars and tracks, it's just incredible. He is so happy."

The toll of the disruption to Jonathan's life is starting to become evident. He has been throwing more frequent tantrums as his parents are trying to establish a new routine. But the toys definitely have helped, Reyes said.

"The cars were like gold," she said.

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BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A huge mural greets visitors to the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston. It's a memorial to the building's namesake, who died unexpectedly in 1993.

Hundreds of tiles are used to create the "magic" mural at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston.

A young Reggie Lewis, wearing his  No. 35 Boston Celtics jersey, dominates the middle of the 11-foot-by-14-foot artwork. At the bottom left is a picture of him and his wife. To his right, the face of legendary Celtic Larry Bird.

But as young men in sweats and sneakers make their way into the gym, something strange happens. The mural comes alive. The photo of a beaming Lewis in formal attire transforms into Lewis the basketball player, streaking down the court.

Larry Bird's picture morphs into that of another famous player, Robert Parrish.

With each step, the mural transforms, representing the many scenes in one man's life.

Artist Rufus B. Seder calls these "movies for a wall" Lifetiles. The Massachusetts artist invented the Lifetiles medium and is the only artist in the world using it. He has more than 30 Lifetiles installations around the globe.  Watch a magic mural in action Â»

At the Taiwan Aquarium, dolphins swim on the wall alongside awestruck children. Bucking broncos line the halls of the the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas. Dancers spin and twirl along with passengers on luxury cruise ships in the south of France. And Seder calls the the South San Francisco, California, BART station his "own personal gallery," with more than 16 installations.

Lifetiles don't use electricity, moving parts or tricky lighting -- just an elaborate and painstaking process done out of Seder's Eye Think Inc. studio near Boston.

"What I'm after is trying to create an experience which totally takes you by surprise," he said.

Scanimation on the shelf

If the technology you see in Lifetiles looks familiar, you might have caught something similar at a local bookstore. The popular children's books "Gallop!" and "Swing!" were also written and illustrated by Seder. With a technique he calls scanimation, pictures in the books come alive as you flip the page.

It's a kids' favorite that quite a few parents enjoy, too, based on sales numbers. "Swing!" and "Gallop!" are currently on The New York Times bestseller list.

Seder originally used scanimation in greeting cards he sold at trade shows around the country. Then Workman Publishing came calling, asking Seder to develop a book based on the eye-catching technique.

That's when Seder caught lightning in a bottle. After several decades as a somewhat unknown artist, he found himself flying to China to teach the scanimation technique to book makers. Just a few years later, there are over 2 million copies of "Gallop!" in print in more than 13 languages.

Still awed by their popularity, Seder said, "I would've been satisfied if a limited edition sold well. It totally blew my mind what happened."

Although his books' success have gained Seder some newfound publicity, the Lifetiles are truly his life's work.

The relatively unknown and seemingly modern form of art isn't new at all. Seder's been working on Lifetiles for more than 20 years, inspired by toys from the 1850s called zoetropes and an active imagination as a youngster.

"I started making movies when I was 12 years old," he said, "so I was always into motion pictures and especially into optical tricks and techniques that trick the eye."

How does it work?

As a viewer, you don't have to learn how to see a Lifetile. It's intuitive, and one immediately understands the concept. As you walk past the mural, it begins to move along with you.

But the question that immediately comes to mind -- and the one Seder gets the most -- is, "How does it work?"

"The short answer is, it's magic," Seder said. "The longer answer is, it's like a flipbook. I've taken all the pages from a flipbook and scrambled them all together, and I've put them up on the wall and made them animate."

The lengthy process also requires attention to detail. Much like an animator, he creates a series of drawings on his computer. He then strips down each image into what becomes an indistinguishable picture made up of a series of vertical lines.

This squiggly-lined image becomes the equivalent of a photo negative. The negative gets sandblasted onto a hand-cast glass tile made in Seder's studio. The heavy, 8-inch-square glass tiles get painted, scraped, fired in a kiln and finally added piece by piece to a Lifetiles mural. Hundreds of these tiles work in harmony to create a huge moving image when displayed on a wall.

Seder patented the painstaking technique but thinks most other artists wouldn't have his patience, even if they had his know-how.

"It's not that I've been playing my cards close to my vest," he said. "It's just very difficult to do."

A Lifetiles installation, from conception to completion, can take up to a year to complete. It's a labor of love he shares with others who walk by his "magic" walls.

"I love to watch people react to the work. They don't expect a wall to move," he said. "They'll be walking down the hallway in a museum and walking outdoors through a zoo ... and suddenly they realize, 'Those dolphins are starting to move next to me! How is that possible?' "

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(CNN) -- Another summer, another iPhone hardware update. This one's worth getting, too -- especially if you have an original iPhone or the iPhone 3G.

A self-admitted tech geek, Chris Pirillo is president of Lockergnome.com, a blogging network.

If you keep holding out because the iPhone doesn't have everything you want, it may be time to re-evaluate your position. This isn't just a phone -- it's a mobile communications device that boasts few true rivals in the marketplace.

Instead of waiting in line at an Apple or AT&T store, I simply ordered mine though Apple, and that process was amazingly simple. I was guaranteed delivery by the June 19th launch date, and indeed, my 32GB (black) iPhone 3GS was handed to me on Friday morning. No muss, no fuss. Kinda.

Before I get into the reasons I'm in love (LOVE!?) with the iPhone 3GS, let me just say that the activation process on AT&T's network was less than impressive.

It took close to 32 hours for the SIM card to activate, and AT&T could offer little to no assistance in that process. They were, quite simply, overwhelmed. I contend that a lot of perceived iPhone issues have more to do with AT&T than they do with Apple.

Even so, Apple saw fit to issue a $30 iTunes gift card to people caught in this delay. Now that is customer service.

So, what else has Apple given the world in the iPhone 3GS?

1. Video recording capabilities. With the swipe of a finger, you can record a quick video. With another swipe, you can trim your recording. With yet another swipe, you can email it or upload it to your YouTube account. Even when it's transferred over AT&T's 3G network, the A/V quality is rather impressive. Based on my first mobile YouTube upload test, I know I've sold a few more people on the 3GS. Apple seems to have integrated some kind of anti-shake feature into its video processing, too.

2. It's 50 percent faster than previous generations. Yes, believe me when I say that you'll notice a difference in speed (in direct comparison to the iPhone and iPhone 3G models). If you've never owned an iPhone before, then you're going to be equally as impressed. Animations are smoother, apps launch more quickly, and...well, the dang thing's just faster.

3. Twice the storage capacity. Are you good with 16GB? Would you rather have 32GB? Either way, you'll get what you want. I always say: Buy as much as you can afford.

4. Five times the amount of usable memory. Given that iPhone OS 3.0 now supports push data (that is, it allows applications to send and receive data in the "background"), you're going to want more than just 20MB available to you. Whereas the iPhone 3G comes with 128MB of memory, the iPhone 3GS has 256MB. This translates into far fewer app crashes.

5. Voice control. Press and hold the home button (that's the round thing at the bottom of the iPhone), and you'll be passed to the Voice Control application -- allowing you to tell your device to call a friend, play a song, and more. It didn't require any training for me to use, either.

6. Compass. Yeah, I have no idea when I'm actually going to need this. More importantly, app developers will take advantage of this new feature. Turn-by-turn navigation, anyone? TomTom's working on an app for that.

7. Improved battery life. I'm not sure you could make it through an entire working day without attaching an external battery pack to your iPhone, but Apple's found a balance in performance and power with the 3GS. They had to throttle the processor speed somewhat, slightly diminish the capability of the video processor, but at least people can't complain that they always have to keep 'er plugged in to an external power source.

8. Better camera. Isn't 3 megapixels usually better than 2? Generally, yes. But Apple also added the ability to take close-up (macro) shots, and an intuitive autofocus feature. Simply tap the area on the screen you want to be in focus, then take your shot. And before I forget, a friend told me that if you wanted to take a picture of yourself (with the screen facing the other direction), tap and hold the "snapshot" icon. Flip the screen away and when you're ready to shoot, simply lift your finger from the trigger. Thanks, David!

9. Same form factor as the iPhone 3G. Why is this nice? Well, you don't have to run out and buy new cases for your iPhone (if you were previously using the iPhone 3G). If this is your first iPhone, or you're upgrading from the original, then you'll still have a full range of accessories for your iPhone 3GS. I'm sure a revision is in the iPhone's future, but not this year.

10. Weight Loss support. Okay, this one's a bit of a stretch, but the iPhone 3GS has the Nike sensor built-in (no receiver required). Maybe I can convince people that I'm more healthy because I have the ability to track progress? Meh. Still, it's a convenience for those who use it -- I'd just recommend a waterproof case for your iPhone to keep it from being damaged by sweat!

Admittedly, the iPhone isn't "cheap" to own. But the device is only getting better with time. The operating system is ever-maturing and (for the most part) backwards-compatible with older iPhones, the 3G S's hardware specs are comparable to today's sexiest smartphones, and Apple isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

The only iPhone killer on the market today...is a newer iPhone.

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text: another

text: iPhone

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text: iPhone

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text: iPhone

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question: How many things did Chris Pirillo list?

answer: 10.

question: who lists 10 things he loves about his new iPhone 3GS?

answer: Chris Pirillo

text: Chris Pirillo

question: Is the iPhone 3GS faster?

answer: 50 percent

text: 50 percent

question: What is faster?

answer: the iPhone 3GS?

text: the iPhone 3GS?

question: What is the storage capacity?

answer: 32GB?


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(CNN) -- A total of 46 inmates were injured during a prison riot at the North Fork Correctional Facility in western Oklahoma, but there were no fatalities, prison officials said Wednesday.

Multiple fights had broken out in the 2,500-bed facility on Tuesday, but order was restored and the facility was completely locked down, according to a statement by Corrections Corporation of America, which runs the prison.

As of Wednesday there were no reports of staff injuries, CCA said.

Regarding the injuries, 16 inmates were transported to facilities outside the prison for treatment, including one who has already returned to the facility. Another 30 inmates were treated on-site by medical staff, CCA said.

While the riot was taking place, a morgue was set up in a tent outside the prison, though there were no fatalities.

Aerial video of the scene from CNN affiliate KOCO showed armed officials holding prisoners at gunpoint.

The prison is located in Sayre, about halfway between Oklahoma City and Amarillo, Texas.

CNN's Chandler Friedman contributed to this report.

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(PEOPLE.com) -- Three and a half weeks since having a double mastectomy, Giuliana Rancic says she's "doing better than I anticipated in recovery."

While that's great news for the E! host, she also says her breast cancer ordeal has changed her life for the better "in so many ways."

"I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to [my husband] Bill," she told PEOPLE at an E! Luncheon on Saturday for the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif.

She's also become more religious. "We go to church every Sunday. And we did before, but it never meant as much as it does now," Rancic, 37, says. "We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it. Bill and I have changed our lives in that one way."

As for the decision to have the surgery, which removed both her breasts, she has no regrets. "The surgery brought my risks down to 95 to 100 percent," she said. "If I had a lumpectomy, I would have early estrogen menopause for at least two years, and I want to have children."

Besides, she told PEOPLE, her breasts don't define who she is as a person or as a professional in the entertainment industry.

"I didn't give two sh**s about my breasts. I didn't care that at the Golden Globes, I wouldn't be able to show cleavage," she said. "A lot of people were shocked. They said, 'Are you sure you want to do this? Think about the life you lead and the fabulous dresses and that's part of your job. It could put your job in jeopardy.' And I thought, if I ever have a job that is defined by my breasts and some gorgeous gown then I'm in the wrong business."

It also helps that her husband has been by her side throughout her health scare. "It breaks my heart that a lot of women don't have a supportive husband," she said. "Bill's a saint, and the hottest male nurse ever. He's very protective and it's almost as hard for him as it was for me."

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(CNN) -- A security camera video of a toddler being run over twice on a street in China has swept across the Web in recent days and has drawn a chorus of horrified denunciations. How, we wonder, could so many passers-by have so callously ignored the girl's plight?

As humans, we are horrified when we learn that a person in distress is not helped, even when, as in this case, many potential helpers are present. Our horror increases if the person is victimized in a particularly vicious or careless way by fellow human beings. Our horror is further heightened when we learn that the victim is helpless and the kind of person who normally stimulates our instinct to aid and protect.

Our spontaneous reaction is to say: "Had I been there, I would have helped; what is wrong with these people?" If an incident occurs in a foreign country or culture, it is easy -- maybe tempting, as we grapple with something so baffling -- to conclude that the particular culture is to blame, that it is being callous, uncaring or egotistical.

It is true that cultural differences exist in many aspects of human behavior, and many of these differences are not trivial. But in the Chinese incident, in which the small child was gravely injured before someone finally carried her away, it would be too facile to think that apathy in the face of others' suffering is a signature of the local culture.

First, the public outcry and outrage within China was quite the same as what one would see in other countries. Second, there have been, of course, similar cases in other countries. Indeed, there was the torture and murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York, in a 1964 street attack. Early reports, which may not have been entirely accurate, indicated that many people listened to or watched the attack and did nothing to stop it, and so a media blitz followed . Commentators asked: What is wrong with New York City, what is wrong with these times, and what is wrong with the particular neighborhood?

Outrage in China after toddler run over, ignored

The incident spawned research on the so-called bystander effect: a set of brilliant experiments conducted by John Darley and Bibb LatanÃÂ©, who showed in their 1968 study that as the number of bystanders goes up, the probability of any individual bystander intervening goes down. This is so because each bystander is trying to solve a so-called "volunteer's dilemma." If everyone responds, the cost could be high and the volunteers might get in each others' way. It would be best if only one bystander responded, the thinking goes. If this is so, it is reasonable to ask who it will be and why it should be me.

Since the original experiments, many studies have explored the bystander effect. Recently, I was part of a research team brought together by Peter Fischer of the University of Regensburg, Germany. We surveyed the existing scientific literature and statistically integrated the findings from 105 data sets. We found that the bystander effect is quite robust, that it has declined somewhat in magnitude over time, and that there are certain conditions under which it disappears or is even reversed.

For example, in a situation in which several bystanders need to band together to overwhelm a perpetrator, they will be more likely to act collectively than to act alone. The heroic effort of the passengers on United Flight 93, which was suspected to be in line to strike a Washington target on 9/11/2001, comes to mind.

It is these extreme cases, the callous injury of a helpless toddler and the heroic revolt of ordinary people in the face of terrorism, that capture our attention. With a bit of luck, most of us will not find ourselves in such existential situations.

We must ask ourselves, however, how we will respond in more mundane situations that present us with fellow human beings who are in need. Will we help or hope that someone else will?

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Joachim Krueger.

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(CNN) -- The son of a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander was found dead in a Dubai hotel room -- with his father's website calling the death "suspicious," though police insisted it was not.

Numerous Iranian media on Sunday reported the death of Ahmad Rezaie inside Hotel Gloria, a four-star hotel in the coastal United Arab Emirates city.

Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, head of the Dubai police's criminal investigations department, said there is no criminal suspicion surrounding the man's death. Al Mansouri, quoting the dead man's brother, added that Ahmad suffered from epilepsy.

Yet Tabnak, a website owned by the dead man's father, Mohsen Rezaie, claimed that Ahmad "was killed under suspicious circumstances."

The same site noted that the death was "concurrent with the martyrdom of Mohsen Rezaie's comrades in arms" on Saturday, referring to an explosion at a military base near Tehran.

At least 17 people were killed in that incident, after a munitions depot accidentally caught fire, lawmaker Hossein Garousi told state media. Lt. Gen. Ramezan Sharif reiterated Sunday that the blaze was accidental and dismissed the possibility of sabotage.

The Tabnak report did not elaborate on what connection, if any, existed between Ahmad Rezaie's death and the deadly explosion.

Shahram Gilabadi -- a spokesman for Iran's Expediency Council, of which Mohsen Rezaie is secretary -- told Tabnak, "The death is currently being investigated."

The semi-official Mehrs News Agency reported that Ahmad Rezaie died from an electric shock.

Mohsen Rezaie served for years as head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard. In 2009, he ran -- unsuccessfully -- as a conservative candidate along with others against incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

He continues to play a leading role with the Expediency Council, which mediates between the parliament and the non-elected Guardian Council led by Ayatollah Khamenei.

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text: powerful

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text: conservative

text: candidate

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text: President

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text: Expediency

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question: Ahmad Rezaie was found

answer: dead

text: dead

question: A Dubai police official says

answer: there is no criminal suspicion surrounding the man's death.

text: there is no criminal suspicion surrounding the man's death.

question: Who said the death is suspicious?

answer: his father's

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question: What did his father's website call the death?

answer: "suspicious,"

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question: Who was found dead in his hotel room?

answer: son of a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander

text: son of a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander

question: Which hotel did this take place at?

answer: Gloria,

text: Gloria,

question: Who was found dead?

answer: Ahmad Rezaie

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text:
Editor's note: Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose current book is "When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams."

Bob Greene says one dentist in Iowa found an ingenious way of keeping his chair filled with patients.

(CNN) -- You may not have the answer for how to thrive in a lousy economy. I may not have the answer for how to thrive in a lousy economy. But the truck stop dentist figured it out a long time ago.

"When your dental practice is in a truck stop, you don't have a lot of patients coming in for their six-month cleanings," said Dr. Thomas P. Roemer. "You have people walking in holding their jaws in pain. Treatment is not optional -- they need to see a dentist, and they need to see me now."

Dr. Roemer's one-man dental office is inside the Iowa 80 Truckstop, at Exit 284 of Interstate 80, near the small town of Walcott. The complex proclaims itself to be the world's largest truck stop, and if you've never been there -- well, the truck stop itself is probably a story for another time. Suffice it to say that the establishment is spread over 200 acres, that it features its own movie theater, a 300-seat restaurant with a 50-foot salad bar, the Super Truck Showroom (more than 75,000 truck-related items for sale, festooned with enough gleaming chrome to make you reach for your sunglasses).

But the topic for today is Dr. Roemer, and how he ended up offering root canals in a building where people stop for diesel fuel.

These desperate economic times highlight the importance of individual inventiveness and ingenuity -- and a dentist has to be beyond ingenious to gaze upon an Iowa truck stop and figure out: A fellow could make himself a pretty nice living in there.

"I had a regular dental practice over in Davenport," Dr. Roemer, 48, told me. "I had an advertisement in the Yellow Pages. And in the early 1990s I noticed that I kept getting calls from truckers who were in a phone booth out by the Iowa 80 Truckstop. They had stopped for fuel, and they were in a lot of pain, and they absolutely had to see a dentist."

Now... Walcott, the town adjacent to the truck stop, has only 1,500 residents. But the truck stop itself caters to an estimated 5,000 customers a day, most of them long-haul truckers passing through. The light bulb above Dr. Roemer's head snapped on.

"I made arrangements with the truck stop to open up an office," he said. "At first I split my practice between my old office in Davenport and the truck stop office. But I ended up closing the old one. My entire practice is in the truck stop now."

Business is good, he said, even during the recession. There have been stories from around the country about doctors and dentists seeing fewer patients, because people just don't have the money to come in for regular checkups. But a truck stop dental office is not a place where patients come because they have planned it -- a truck stop dental office is a place where patients come because they need immediate relief.

"The sentence I hear the most often is, 'Do you pull teeth?'" Dr. Roemer said. "Someone will come in with his hand to his face, and he'll want to have a tooth extracted. He will have heard that I'm here."

But how do truckers learn about Dr. Roemer's practice?

"Word of mouth," he said.

(So to speak.)

The business model of most dental offices, he said, is based on teeth-cleaning: A dentist builds up his or her list of loyal patients and their families who come in to get their teeth cleaned, and when they need fillings or crowns, the office is there for them. The truck stop dentist, by necessity, turns that business model inside out.

"I usually see a patient once, and then never see him again," he said. "Truckers aren't going to say to me, 'I'll be back for a cleaning on September 23 at 2 in the afternoon.' They can't plan where they're going to be. I make patient files for the people who come in, but I know that I'll probably never have a reason to open the files after they walk out the door. These are mostly one-time patients."

He doesn't have the luxury of knowing, at the beginning of a day, how many patients he will see -- or even if he will see any. "It can range from zero patients in a day to 15," he said. "It's unusual for a patient to call in advance. I'll know I have a patient when the door opens and a trucker walks in, with that look on his face."

Dr. Roemer's success, he said, is based on two factors: the steady flow of those 35,000 people who pull in to the truck stop every week, and the actuarial certainty that some of them will be truckers with a mouthful of hurt.

"I had a guy who came in yesterday who told me he was in such pain that he had tried to pull his own tooth," Dr. Roemer said. "I told him there was no need for that. I told him that I could help him."

It does get a little lonely out at Exit 284, not being able to build up a continuing relationship with his patients, the way most dentists do. Sometimes, as a patient is getting up from the chair to leave, Dr. Roemer will find himself saying:

"Make sure you try to get your dispatcher to send you back this way."

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.

text: Editor

text: 's

text: note

text: Bob

text: Greene

text: is

text: a

text: bestselling

text: author

text: whose

text: current

text: book

text: is

text: When

text: We

text: Get

text: to

text: Surf

text: City

text: A

text: Journey

text: Through

text: America

text: in

text: Pursuit

text: of

text: Rock

text: and

text: Roll

text: Friendship

text: and

text: Dreams

text: Bob

text: Greene

text: says

text: one

text: dentist

text: in

text: Iowa

text: found

text: an

text: ingenious

text: way

text: of

text: keeping

text: his

text: chair

text: filled

text: with

text: patients

text: CNN

text: You

text: may

text: not

text: have

text: the

text: answer

text: for

text: how

text: to

text: thrive

text: in

text: a

text: lousy

text: economy

text: I

text: may

text: not

text: have

text: the

text: answer

text: for

text: how

text: to

text: thrive

text: in

text: a

text: lousy

text: economy

text: But

text: the

text: truck

text: stop

text: dentist

text: figured

text: it

text: out

text: a

text: long

text: time

text: ago

text: When

text: your

text: dental

text: practice

text: is

text: in

text: a

text: truck

text: stop

text: you

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: patients

text: coming

text: in

text: for

text: their

text: six

text: month

text: cleanings

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Thomas

text: P.

text: Roemer

text: You

text: have

text: people

text: walking

text: in

text: holding

text: their

text: jaws

text: in

text: pain

text: Treatment

text: is

text: not

text: optional

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text: need

text: to

text: see

text: a

text: dentist

text: and

text: they

text: need

text: to

text: see

text: me

text: now

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: 's

text: one

text: man

text: dental

text: office

text: is

text: inside

text: the

text: Iowa

text: Truckstop

text: at

text: Exit

text: of

text: Interstate

text: near

text: the

text: small

text: town

text: of

text: Walcott

text: The

text: complex

text: proclaims

text: itself

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: largest

text: truck

text: stop

text: and

text: if

text: you

text: 've

text: never

text: been

text: there

text: well

text: the

text: truck

text: stop

text: itself

text: is

text: probably

text: a

text: story

text: for

text: another

text: time

text: Suffice

text: it

text: to

text: say

text: that

text: the

text: establishment

text: is

text: spread

text: over

text: acres

text: that

text: it

text: features

text: its

text: own

text: movie

text: theater

text: a

text: restaurant

text: with

text: a

text: salad

text: bar

text: the

text: Super

text: Truck

text: Showroom

text: more

text: than

text: truck

text: related

text: items

text: for

text: sale

text: festooned

text: with

text: enough

text: gleaming

text: chrome

text: to

text: make

text: you

text: reach

text: for

text: your

text: sunglasses

text: But

text: the

text: topic

text: for

text: today

text: is

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: and

text: how

text: he

text: ended

text: up

text: offering

text: root

text: canals

text: in

text: a

text: building

text: where

text: people

text: stop

text: for

text: diesel

text: fuel

text: These

text: desperate

text: economic

text: times

text: highlight

text: the

text: importance

text: of

text: individual

text: inventiveness

text: and

text: ingenuity

text: and

text: a

text: dentist

text: has

text: to

text: be

text: beyond

text: ingenious

text: to

text: gaze

text: upon

text: an

text: Iowa

text: truck

text: stop

text: and

text: figure

text: out

text: A

text: fellow

text: could

text: make

text: himself

text: a

text: pretty

text: nice

text: living

text: in

text: there

text: I

text: had

text: a

text: regular

text: dental

text: practice

text: over

text: in

text: Davenport

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: told

text: me

text: I

text: had

text: an

text: advertisement

text: in

text: the

text: Yellow

text: Pages

text: And

text: in

text: the

text: early

text: I

text: noticed

text: that

text: I

text: kept

text: getting

text: calls

text: from

text: truckers

text: who

text: were

text: in

text: a

text: phone

text: booth

text: out

text: by

text: the

text: Iowa

text: Truckstop

text: They

text: had

text: stopped

text: for

text: fuel

text: and

text: they

text: were

text: in

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: pain

text: and

text: they

text: absolutely

text: had

text: to

text: see

text: a

text: dentist

text: Now

text: Walcott

text: the

text: town

text: adjacent

text: to

text: the

text: truck

text: stop

text: has

text: only

text: residents

text: But

text: the

text: truck

text: stop

text: itself

text: caters

text: to

text: an

text: estimated

text: customers

text: a

text: day

text: most

text: of

text: them

text: long

text: haul

text: truckers

text: passing

text: through

text: The

text: light

text: bulb

text: above

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: 's

text: head

text: snapped

text: on

text: I

text: made

text: arrangements

text: with

text: the

text: truck

text: stop

text: to

text: open

text: up

text: an

text: office

text: he

text: said

text: At

text: first

text: I

text: split

text: my

text: practice

text: between

text: my

text: old

text: office

text: in

text: Davenport

text: and

text: the

text: truck

text: stop

text: office

text: But

text: I

text: ended

text: up

text: closing

text: the

text: old

text: one

text: My

text: entire

text: practice

text: is

text: in

text: the

text: truck

text: stop

text: now

text: Business

text: is

text: good

text: he

text: said

text: even

text: during

text: the

text: recession

text: There

text: have

text: been

text: stories

text: from

text: around

text: the

text: country

text: about

text: doctors

text: and

text: dentists

text: seeing

text: fewer

text: patients

text: because

text: people

text: just

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: the

text: money

text: to

text: come

text: in

text: for

text: regular

text: checkups

text: But

text: a

text: truck

text: stop

text: dental

text: office

text: is

text: not

text: a

text: place

text: where

text: patients

text: come

text: because

text: they

text: have

text: planned

text: it

text: a

text: truck

text: stop

text: dental

text: office

text: is

text: a

text: place

text: where

text: patients

text: come

text: because

text: they

text: need

text: immediate

text: relief

text: The

text: sentence

text: I

text: hear

text: the

text: most

text: often

text: is

text: Do

text: you

text: pull

text: teeth

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: said

text: Someone

text: will

text: come

text: in

text: with

text: his

text: hand

text: to

text: his

text: face

text: and

text: he

text: 'll

text: want

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: tooth

text: extracted

text: He

text: will

text: have

text: heard

text: that

text: I

text: 'm

text: here

text: But

text: how

text: do

text: truckers

text: learn

text: about

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: 's

text: practice

text: Word

text: of

text: mouth

text: he

text: said

text: So

text: to

text: speak

text: The

text: business

text: model

text: of

text: most

text: dental

text: offices

text: he

text: said

text: is

text: based

text: on

text: teeth

text: cleaning

text: A

text: dentist

text: builds

text: up

text: his

text: or

text: her

text: list

text: of

text: loyal

text: patients

text: and

text: their

text: families

text: who

text: come

text: in

text: to

text: get

text: their

text: teeth

text: cleaned

text: and

text: when

text: they

text: need

text: fillings

text: or

text: crowns

text: the

text: office

text: is

text: there

text: for

text: them

text: The

text: truck

text: stop

text: dentist

text: by

text: necessity

text: turns

text: that

text: business

text: model

text: inside

text: out

text: I

text: usually

text: see

text: a

text: patient

text: once

text: and

text: then

text: never

text: see

text: him

text: again

text: he

text: said

text: Truckers

text: are

text: n't

text: going

text: to

text: say

text: to

text: me

text: I

text: 'll

text: be

text: back

text: for

text: a

text: cleaning

text: on

text: September

text: at

text: in

text: the

text: afternoon

text: They

text: ca

text: n't

text: plan

text: where

text: they

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: I

text: make

text: patient

text: files

text: for

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: come

text: in

text: but

text: I

text: know

text: that

text: I

text: 'll

text: probably

text: never

text: have

text: a

text: reason

text: to

text: open

text: the

text: files

text: after

text: they

text: walk

text: out

text: the

text: door

text: These

text: are

text: mostly

text: one

text: time

text: patients

text: He

text: does

text: n't

text: have

text: the

text: luxury

text: of

text: knowing

text: at

text: the

text: beginning

text: of

text: a

text: day

text: how

text: many

text: patients

text: he

text: will

text: see

text: or

text: even

text: if

text: he

text: will

text: see

text: any

text: It

text: can

text: range

text: from

text: zero

text: patients

text: in

text: a

text: day

text: to

text: he

text: said

text: It

text: 's

text: unusual

text: for

text: a

text: patient

text: to

text: call

text: in

text: advance

text: I

text: 'll

text: know

text: I

text: have

text: a

text: patient

text: when

text: the

text: door

text: opens

text: and

text: a

text: trucker

text: walks

text: in

text: with

text: that

text: look

text: on

text: his

text: face

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: 's

text: success

text: he

text: said

text: is

text: based

text: on

text: two

text: factors

text: the

text: steady

text: flow

text: of

text: those

text: people

text: who

text: pull

text: in

text: to

text: the

text: truck

text: stop

text: every

text: week

text: and

text: the

text: actuarial

text: certainty

text: that

text: some

text: of

text: them

text: will

text: be

text: truckers

text: with

text: a

text: mouthful

text: of

text: hurt

text: I

text: had

text: a

text: guy

text: who

text: came

text: in

text: yesterday

text: who

text: told

text: me

text: he

text: was

text: in

text: such

text: pain

text: that

text: he

text: had

text: tried

text: to

text: pull

text: his

text: own

text: tooth

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: said

text: I

text: told

text: him

text: there

text: was

text: no

text: need

text: for

text: that

text: I

text: told

text: him

text: that

text: I

text: could

text: help

text: him

text: It

text: does

text: get

text: a

text: little

text: lonely

text: out

text: at

text: Exit

text: not

text: being

text: able

text: to

text: build

text: up

text: a

text: continuing

text: relationship

text: with

text: his

text: patients

text: the

text: way

text: most

text: dentists

text: do

text: Sometimes

text: as

text: a

text: patient

text: is

text: getting

text: up

text: from

text: the

text: chair

text: to

text: leave

text: Dr.

text: Roemer

text: will

text: find

text: himself

text: saying

text: Make

text: sure

text: you

text: try

text: to

text: get

text: your

text: dispatcher

text: to

text: send

text: you

text: back

text: this

text: way

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Bob

text: Greene

question: Where is his dental practice?

answer: inside the Iowa 80 Truckstop, at Exit 284 of Interstate 80, near the small town of Walcott.

text: inside the Iowa 80 Truckstop, at Exit 284 of Interstate 80, near the small town of Walcott.

question: Greene said that the traffic ensured that some truckers will be in need of what?

answer: to see a dentist,

text: to see a dentist,

question: What dentist discovered a clever marketing method?

answer: Dr. Roemer,

text: Dr. Roemer,

question: What state is the dentist from?

answer: Iowa

text: Iowa

question: What interstate was the truck stop located at?

answer: Interstate 80,

text: Interstate 80,

question: Who described the clever dentist?

answer: Bob Greene

text: Bob Greene