Horrible hairdos and freaky fashions have come and gone over these three decades but Monterey Peninsula Dental Group (established in 1972) continues to provide excellent dental health care for infants, children, adolescents and adults. Voted Best Dental Practice by Weeklyreaders three years in a row, MPDG’s team of dentists work hard to stay on the cutting edge of preventive care, cosmetic dentistry, implants and restoration, as well as periodontal treatments.

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For kids there is nothing cooler than walkie talkies. There is something about pushing a button and being after to hear someone on the other end from a distance away that never gets old. Most kids prefer to talk to each other with walkie talkies than to talk in the same room. This set comes with 2 walkie talkies, each supporting 22 channels and a range up to 8000 feet.

A more radical possibility, at least in terms of chemistry, than remaking and improving natural compounds is to create enzymes to catalyse chemical reactions nature never carries out. Take the task of sticking a carbon atom to a silicon atom. Human chemists are pretty good at this, and the organo-silicon compounds they thus create are used in electronics, pharmaceuticals, building materials, breast implants and more. Nature, though, does not use carbon-silicon bonds, and so no natural enzymes make them.

The Fur Babies are a new line of cute collectible plush animals. You can have some fun with them because they are like puppets. Wiggle your finger around to make its eyes and ears move. Bedtime stories will never be the same.

If you have previously loaded any 3D models with the Micro, you will see thumbnails of them below the icons. You can click on a thumbnail to load the model, or choose Open Model and navigate your file directories to select a 3D file to load. Once loaded, the object will appear on screen within a representation of the printer. You can rescale, rotate, or reposition the object with the aid of several buttons at the left edge of the screen, or center the object with a button at the bottom of the screen.

What happens when you combine slime with Poop and fun surprises? You get Poopsie Slime Surprise. Created by the same company as LOL surprise, Poopsie Slime Surprise is the hottest new collectible. Unwrap it like a toilet roll to unravel 10 magical surprises inside. Inside there is slime powder, a mystery scent, and utensils that lets kids mix up slime . . . we meant unicorn poop. There’s also a poop keychain collectible that can be used to store the slime. Who knew poop could be so exciting?

In 2009, alopecia started to cause his then-brown hair to fall out in clumps. Then came the onset of Bell’s palsy and Parkinson’s disease.

Whether in a pinch for a quick fix like a flat tire or oil change, or something requiring more precision like complete automotive repair, this locally owned repair shop treats its customers like neighbors with quick, honest, accommodating and affordable services. A local shop, yes, but they are stocked with all major tire brands for all makes and models of autos, trucks and SUVs. So whether it’s an old clunker running on its last legs after a couple of decades (and couple-hundred-thousand miles too many) or just a bad car day, this spot is the best.

Lacta chocolate started in the 1960s as Galacta, named for gala, the Greek word for milk. In the ’90s, the brand tried to move away from being known as a kids’ candy and focused on a new slogan: ‘‘The sweetest part of your life.’’ The company doubled down in 2010, crowdsourcing love stories from its fans and vowing to create a video out of the winning submission. It received 1,307 stories and made a 27-minute video, with more than 11,000 people voting online to choose the actors, character names and wardrobes; some even served as extras. ‘‘Love in Action’’ was shown on Greece’s biggest TV channel on Valentine’s Day. Today Lacta is one of the best-selling milk chocolate brands in the country.

Spyro is being remastered in full high-definition for the PS4 and Xbox One so a whole new generation of players can discover the wonderful worlds of Spyro. The first three original Spyro games will be included on one disc packed with over 100 levels. In addition to graphical enhancements, the game will also feature improved game controls for a better experience.

Of all the candies in the world, Chupa Chups might have the most famous designer. In 1969, Enric Bernat, the Spanish businessman behind the lollipop brand, asked his friend Salvador Dalí to create the well-known logo. Though it has had some tweaks since then, that daisy-shaped logo — and the fact that it’s placed at the top of the pop — remains, as does the name, which translates to something like ‘‘sucky suck.’’ Since they were first released in the 1950s, the candies have become available in 177 countries and even made it to outer space in 1994, when Russian astronauts brought them to the Mir space station. Today, the best-selling flavors are strawberry and cola, which happen to be two of the original five, along with mint, lemon and orange.