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...didn't know. Worse, I'm mortified to say, whose name I got from a stranger. But everything seemed fine: the waiting room was filled with reasonably normal-looking patients and the treatment rooms, while unadorned, were generally clean. Then came the first needle. Bam! It shot into my abdomen, immediately followed by a sharp pain in my side. "Oh, that hurt you because you have problems there," said the acupuncturist. She explained that she performed a special, deep acupuncture, in which needles are inserted nearly two inches. With metal protruding from my stomach, barely clad and worrying about that...
...None too soon, it turned out. When I got home, my abdomen was swollen, my stomach, hips and lower back aching. I called the acupuncturist, who told me that pain was good, a sure sign that qi, the Eastern word for life force, was at work. When, the next morning I was still hurting, I went to my doctor, who performed a sonogram that showed that my abdomen was filled with fluid. The needles, it turned out, had penetrated the abdominal wall and entered the pelvic cavity. What's more, they had been placed perilously close to the abdominal aorta...
...together by an elaborate system of chemical signals. He went on to prove the existence of what are now called pheromones with an elegant experiment. Pied Piper-like, he lured a stream of worker ants along a chemical trail laid down with pheromones extracted from a gland in the abdomen of a fire...
Taking a broader approach, researchers at San Diego State University compared 13 abdominal exercises for their ability to develop the rectus abdominis, or central muscle of the abdomen, and the external obliques on either side of the body. They concluded, in a report published in May, that the most effective exercises rotated the body and worked the abs the entire time. Among the winners: the bicycle maneuver--so called because it looks as if you are pedaling while lying flat on the floor--and exercises performed on the "Captain's Chair," a device typically found in gyms that helps hold...
More anomalies piled up. The mummy had gas in its abdomen and pelvis, suggesting faulty preservation techniques. Its brain had been extracted through the mouth, while Egyptian mummies had theirs removed through the nose. An incision in the abdomen looked suspiciously like a stab wound. Some of the woman's vertebrae were dislocated or fractured. All of her teeth were missing. Grammatical errors in the cuneiform inscriptions suggested the engraver knew modern Persian. The mummy's gold ornaments weighed only 15 grams. "No princess could wear such poor jewelry," says the Karachi archaeology department...