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By Dan Voelpel, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 28--Saving the Murray Morgan Bridge can really work up a guy's appetite.

Just ask state Rep. Dennis Flannigan. But Flannigan's hunger pangs don't get no satisfaction these days.

Five weeks of pinpoint radiation blasts successfully knocked the cancer out of his cheek, but the treatments also knocked out his taste buds and saliva glands. Just as he feared.

"This loss of taste buds has turned eating into a chore -- and I've always hated doing cho

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