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...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. If that had been nicked, massive bleeding could have occurred. "She did surgery on you without a license," said my doctor...
...away at its own little well-defined niche of the physical world, collecting its stamps. Yes, much of mainstream science has come to resemble philately. Mathematicians dig their way to yet another Truth, even deeper and less applicable than the last. Evolutionary biologists scour the hills for one more pelvic girdle to add to the collection. Physicists build gi-normous machines to refine their test parameters of desiccated theories that have been around for decades, if not centuries. Molecular biologists use polymerase chain reaction on everything in sight to find the next link in some signaling pathway. Linguists chronicle...
...stopped playing “Bootylicious” in the middle of poetry readings and executive meetings. The accused, Linda F. Helton ’02, commented “I don’t think you’re ready for this celly” between somehow pretentious pelvic thrusts...
...cheesy plastic, making objects that have energy and personality but aren't wacky. He, like many of his generation, has championed the could-only-be-designed-with-computers blob. But his is not just a blob for its own sake. His Oh Chair is reminiscent of a pelvic girdle. His New Move glassware for German manufacturer Leonardo looks like a forest floor, with mushroom bowls, fern candelabras and lily-shaped vases...
...riding jeans have been growing in popularity for years now. But on the theory that any good fashion trend must eventually be carried to its absurd extreme, some celebrities are really taking the plunge--flaunting not just navel rings but also jutting pelvic bones, drastic bikini waxes and even a bit of cleavage from behind. Witness Destiny's Child's Beyonce Knowles, who briefly flashes a startling rear view in a scene from MTV's Hip-Hopera: Carmen, which made its debut last week. Or Janet Jackson, whose bikini string rises a full three inches above her jeans...