her husband was sick, i think he hadms, he couldn't work and her son had braces on his teeth and he hadcome on for a long long time. she called everyone of the 34 dentists in that three-county area who took medicaid patients, trying to find one dentist who would take the braces off the kids to eat. she couldn't find one. she finally held the kid down while her husband took the breezes off with a pair of pliers. i ran into another elderly man who told a step of the dental clinic that he had himself a extracted six of his own teeth with a pair of pliers. because he could not get into a dentist. that kind of nonsense just should not happen paren. we put an emphasis on providing dental care in as many areas as we could. that is what we did with those nasty things called your marks. --earmarks. >> can you talk about who will replace you? >> that is always up to the caucus. norm dixon is the next person in line. he maybe next in line for the full committee and has become chairman of the subcommittee. it only took him 32 years in order to rise to the subcommittee and i think he will do a fine

and -- and,of course, others at that time thought it hadm at something to do with 13 colonies joined as one. that was the other noterpretation. c-span: wait a minute.w ch a what do you do now for a living? >> guest: i teach at the university of massachusetts at amherst and i teach mathematicsi i'm a lecturer, and i teach large lectures:introductory calculus, precalculus, that sort of thing. so i stand in front of about 200 students at a time and i try tom make some of the intricacies of mathematics interesting, somehow come to life for them. c-span: when was it that you was actually proposed this book toi the free press and when did they buy it? >> guest: i proposed that to to them -- it would have been in -n i'm trying to remember what year. yea it was about two years ago, i believe.beli it had been rejected all overevb the place.en in the process of writing proposals -- i was learning how to write a proposal, and ia r originally conceived of thisf a rely as a reference book, that there would be somelige introduction, a little bit ofant explanation, but it would be largely a collect