My own pants were always sagging down below my belly button, redneck-style, even with a belt.

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My belly button signals stocks and junk bonds are where to be this year.

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More bizarre terms like "fear of belly button lint" and "fear of the French people" fall farther down the list.

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The Democrats' county chair, Doris Adams, tells me Xenia is the belly button of Republicanism - and she seems to be determined to give the rival party a poke in the tummy.

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Don't fly by your belly button.

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You slide a small camera a laparoscope into the abdomen through a quarter-inch incision near the belly button, insert a long grasper through an incision beneath the waistline, and push a device for stapling and cutting through an incision in the left lower abdomen.

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Gregory S. Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory, is using brain imaging to demonstrate the effects of peer pressure on individual perception, with the idea of explaining the development of fads, from investment trends to the popularity of Burberry plaids and belly button rings.

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Teenage girls everywhere seem to be Skechers' biggest fans, but the company is careful not to openly cater to them in the U.S. That's one reason Britney pitches shoes only outside the U.S., where she is almost as well known for her Energys as she is for her belly button.

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Spend a couple of minutes posing in dark clothing in front of a white background a DVD held at your belly-button provides scale and the software tallies your measurements to within fractions of an inch.

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