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JERILYN FORSYTHE'S PUBLISHED WRITING - HIGHLIGHTS

Clips: Work
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America’s highest-security federal prison, ADX, is home to some of the world’s most notorious criminals, including Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo,” shoe bomber Richard Reid, and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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Peripatetic Shawn Oprisiu has moved around—a lot. Her easy laugh and grounded disposition lend themselves to gracefully weathering transitions; her surroundings may change, but she remains steadfast. Now, the 52-year-old director of dental outreach for Swope Health is making a difference in the Kansas City metropolitan area by providing mobile dental hygiene to kids in two states.

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This personal essay is part of "The Art of Dying Well," a feature on death and dying that won a national magazine award—the highest honor in the industry. #ASME

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In this feature, we’ll try to make sense of some of dentistry's pandemic-related changes and what they mean for the industry going forward.

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If you had quizzed me two years ago on where I thought I’d be right now, the Gulf Coast probably wouldn’t have been my first—or fifth—guess.

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Oral cancer strikes nearly 50,000 Americans annually, half of whom  will die within five years. Its mortality rate has remained stubbornly high—so why isn’t the disease higher on the public radar?

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An annual list of the industry's most influential practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and trendsetters. 

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With its grand opening just around the corner, the team behind the church for "Elevationists" is carefully managing legal and neighborhood concerns.

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Residents of the island of Vieques, off the coast of Puerto Rico, say the U.S. Navy's bombing range there has contaminated the land and sickened the people, all of them U.S. citizens.

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More than 600 people died on Colorado roadways in 2016, and in Denver, traffic fatalities have gone up every year since 2005. Why is this happening—and what can we do about it?

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The luxury lingerie and loungewear brand is perfectly sensual, functional, and affordable.

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The once-a-decade, mandatory survey is kind of a big deal. We break down what's at stake for the Centennial State.

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These are the most innovative new products, services and business leaders in dentistry.

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If you grew up obsessed with TV shows like Dateline, 20/20, and Forensic Files, these podcasts are for you.

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After a year as chaotic and unsettling as 2020, dentists everywhere could be forgiven for choosing to think of anything but the aesthetics of their practices. Yet design prevailed.

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How have these top players achieved their current perches—and where are they, and dentistry itself, headed in the months and years ahead?

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In its own way, 2020 has made our point for us: When the chips are down, America’s top young dental talent will rise to the occasion.

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From why their representation matters to an introduction to each candidate, here's your guide to the Mile High City's 2019 City Council election.

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At Options Laboratory School, Dyryl Burnett is trying to teach “the way of the world” to his students through music, in the same way his high school music teacher did many years ago.

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We never tire of the ever-busy Ski Town USA, which this season is undergoing major renovations and will become Colorado's second-largest resort behind Vail.

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The ultimate compilation of only-in-our-state things you need to do before you take your last breath of thin air. *

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When she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2004, Phoenix resident Jody Clute had no idea it would lead her, and her city, to revisit one of the biggest public health debates of the 20th century – water fluoridation.

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New York Times bestseller Will Schwalbe’s newest work is one for the voracious reader in all of us.

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Taught by local comedian Christie Buchele, Voodoo Comedy Playhouse’s new six-week introduction to standup comedy will work with students to teach confidence, humor, and authenticity.

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Despite being known for its legal weed and craft beer, you don’t need to light up or suffer hangovers to have a good time in the Mile High City.

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Denver's standup scene is as vibrant as ever—and the host of live performances happening each night prove it.

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