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...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 surgery...
...nothing to do with medicine or science and everything to do with chemistry - the romantic kind. Whether they are high-school girls experiencing their first big crush or their mothers relishing a good nighttime soap - hordes of whom watch the show together as a mother-daughter bonding ritual - fans of the show all want to know whom surgical intern Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) will pick as her lover, McDreamy or McVet...
Primal Scream: 1. Harvard ritual in which several hundred brave souls streak across the Yard on the night before the first day of exams. 2. Harvard ritual in which the entire remaining student body congregates to watch them—along with approximately 20 old men with video cameras...
...obligation Tammy Cohen had fulfilled regularly, but never quite so fabulously. For years the 44-year-old New Yorker, like generations of Jewish women before her, had immersed herself monthly in a mikvah, or ritual bath. The act, which marks the seven-day juncture after menstruation when the Orthodox Jewish tradition considers a woman ready to resume marital relations, was indisputably meaningful to Cohen, but some of the facilities she had been using were uninspiring. The pool, she says, looked "like someone had dug a hole and put some plaster in it"; its rabbinically mandated rainwater sometimes bore someone else...
...country and didn't have a future." The result were mikvahs that would test any faith: "They were horrid: small, sparse and unfortunately, sometimes very dirty," she says. By the 1960s fewer than 200 survived in the U.S., and those were embattled: a feminist critique that ritual purity denigrated female sexuality seemed like "the last nail in the coffin," Slonim says...