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...four men and two women took only four hours to ease the scarred O'Hare's pain. For this suffering, plus loss of income and earning power, plus medical expenses, it awarded her precisely $854,219.61, a stunning amount that headline writers could not resist calling variously NAVEL VICTORY, BATTLE OF MIDWAY, and BELLY LAUGH. Hours later, patient and doctor ran into each other at Manhattan's "21" Club; she was there to celebrate, he to ponder an appeal and "the absurdity...
...best bird-watchers, and a professional traveller. He has journeyed through South America, lived among a stone age tribe in New Guinea, and with turtlehunters in the Carribbean. The Himalayan trip was more than just another notch in his belt. Matthiessen is a Zen Buddhist and Nepal is the navel of his world...
...another part of the body: the thin membrane lining the abdominal, or peritoneal, cavity and covering the organs that jut into it, including the stomach, liver, spleen and intestines, as well as the kidneys. To make this area accessible, doctors cut a small permanent opening just below the navel, then implant a tube that leads through the peritoneal membrane and into the cavity itself...
...with Jason's food-a solution of amino acids, water, sugar, salt, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins and trace elements. A battery-powered miniature pump zippered into another vest pocket propels the solution through a tube implanted in Jason's skin midway between his rib cage and navel. The tube runs up his chest to the base of his neck, where it threads into a vein leading to the superior vena cava, the large vessel that finally returns blood from the head and neck to the heart...
...administer fertility hormones, like those that have been responsible for the rash of multiple births in recent years. That encourages the ripening of several eggs at one time. To get at the eggs, Steptoe turns to laparoscopy. While the woman is under anesthesia, an incision is made near the navel. Inert gases are pumped into the abdominal cavity to expand it and separate the organs, and the laparoscope is inserted to seek out appropriate eggs, which are then sucked into a small hollow needle...