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Your Hottest Physical Trait: Probably my chewed up toes from my hockey skates, or maybe just my exccesive amount of armpit hair. It’s a toss...
...stickler for personal hygiene, recalls a butler, and hated the smell of sweat. One summer day Uday stopped the butler and said, "What the hell is that smell?" Uday ordered five falaqa lashes on the butler's right foot and five in his right armpit. On another occasion, the butler says he received 160 falaqa for the sin of serving Uday's food on the wrong type of plate...
...snob, but Lubbock is the armpit of Texas. I can say this because I’ve talked to people from there who say that themselves, I’ve been there myself, and if you look at Texas on a map, Lubbock falls nicely into the pit area...
Someone once told Michael B. Jobbins ’04 that he was from the boil on the ass of America. Comments like this aren’t unusual when you live in New Jersey, a place alternately referred to as the armpit of America, New York’s garbage dump and turnpike heaven. Finally Jobbins and his two roommates, Albert J. Lim ’04 and Ryan G. White ’04, decided that they had enough of the abuse, that it was time to fight back on behalf of their mid-Atlantic home. They founded...
Doctors have also developed a new technique for determining whether a cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. Instead of taking 15 to 20 lymph nodes from in and around the armpit for further examination--a procedure that can lead to problems with swelling and disability of the arm--they are focusing on certain key spots called sentinel nodes. The surgical team injects a blue dye into the tissue from which it has just removed a tumor and traces its path through the lymph system. The first node or two that the dye reaches are presumably also the first nodes...