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...nurses who called and put aside their work to gather around the incubator. Weiler can't pick up this child, lying so still, like a broken marionette, so much tape holding so many tubes. He dips his finger in the water and touches the baby's forehead. "I baptize you, Christopher, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." And they say a prayer...
...awkwardness that I mention the "r" word at all, in any of its forms or guises. I have, of course, found ways of expressing my native Catholicism. I attend St. Paul's student Mass nearly every Sunday, abstain from eating meat during Lent, wear an ashen cross on my forehead the whole of Ash Wednesday, and even attend Mass on holy days of obligation every once in a while. But in the classroom and among mixed groups of my friends and acquaintances, I hardly ever utter a word about the Father, the Son or the Holy Spirit...
...Beatles, for example, were influenced heavily by the music of the great sitar player, Ravi Shankar. We all know about the therapeutic powers of yoga--and, for better or worse, the teachings of Deepak Chopra. No Doubt's Gwen Stefani is oft-seen wearing a bindi on her forehead; mehndi, the decorative paint worn by many Indian brides, has become quite popular among Western women. Even Nehru jackets may someday make a comeback...
...ability to make certain facial expressions in order to look years younger or at least "well rested"? Maggie, a 52-year-old who wants to be identified only by her first name, would say yes. And so she is sitting in a Manhattan doctor's office having her forehead injected with a dozen or so shots of botulinum toxin A, or Botox, as it is known commercially. The toxin paralyzes local facial muscles and thus eliminates wrinkles caused by muscle contractions--in this case the worry lines in Maggie's forehead...
...style bubble haircut and has a teasing, just-between-girlfriends way with patients that makes her office seem more like Oprah than a dermatology clinic. The injections she administers--"Don't worry! It's only a baby needle!"--leave a series of bloody little welts across Maggie's forehead. Though they look like nasty mosquito bites, they will disappear within minutes as the toxin is absorbed into the muscles; within four or five days, Maggie's forehead will be immobile, about which she is unconcerned. "People aren't that observant," she notes. "They...