Word: nosed
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...power of chromosomes always gives me pause. Parents of newborns often point out to me that their baby has her mother's nose or his father's ears. We are so eager to make that physical connection that binds us to our children. Yet in patients with Down syndrome, a genetic condition that results from the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome, they share more physical features with other children who have Down syndrome than with their family members. I don't know why this angers me so much. Obviously, chromosomal material determines our appearances...
...multiethnic country. An opening concert was headlined by legendary Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé, as if to personify the harmoniousness and opulence Kazakhstan wants to project. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the presence of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov. After the 1991 U.S.S.R. breakup, Uzbekistan looked down its nose at Kazakhstan - historically nomadic, steppe-locked, undeveloped - and Karimov claimed the role of regional heavyweight for himself. But here he was, despite his obsession with protocol, choosing his own country's independence day to embark on a state visit to Kazakhstan. It was the visible sign of a new order...
...feels like everywhere you go people are watching and waiting for you to embarrass yourself. Think you stick out now? Just wait until a tourist in the Yard takes your picture as you busy yourself with lofty academic activities for which Harvard students are famous, such as scratching your nose...
...visibly progresses, the question I'm asked most frequently by relatives and total strangers is not whether I'm having a girl or a boy, but whether I'm having a C-section. Vaginal childbirth is very out these days in Tehran. The procedure is quickly edging out the nose job as the dominant medical trend among Iranians, a people very fond of surgery. No longer the provenance of last-minute complications or doctors' liability fears, Caesarean delivery is viewed here as the modern woman's choice. An Iranian politician I interviewed recently even worked the normalcy...
...mounting cache of Caesareans is a natural outgrowth of the surgery-obsessed culture that has emerged here since the Islamic Revolution. Forced to cover their bodies in Islamic dress, women focused on beautifying what remained visible: their faces. That turned Iran into the nose job capital of the world, and shaped a generation receptive to elective surgery, in particular procedures that broke with tradition: be it the classically hooked Iranian nose, or the female ritual of childbirth. Once having one's nose carved became as routine as a dental cleaning, Iranians simply grew to feel at home with non-medical...