Buttocks

ON A SCALE of 1 to 10, women appear to be the angriest people in America. They're even angrier than New York Mets fans.Not all women, of course. There are those who have a sense of mirth and seldom gnash their teeth or let their nostrils quiver.The angry women are the many who seem to believe that all men are cruel, sexist beasts, constantly looking for ways to do them physical or mental harm. They see enemies in trousers everywhere.I've been hearing from them lately. They are fuming over a column I wrote about boxer Mike Tyson being sued for $100 million because he placed a hand on the buttock of a beauty queen while posing for a picture.

My teen-ager was walking down our carpeted basement steps and fell on her buttocks. She complains of aching pain and has trouble sitting.Over-the-counter medications don't seem to to help. Any suggestions?We suspect your daughter probably sustained a direct blow to the coccyx, the end portion of the spinal column commonly referred to as the tailbone.If you press around the area just at the point on the spine where the two halves of the buttocks come together you can appreciate how little tissue covers the bone.

When we try to name the one thing that makes America great, we are forced to conclude that the answer is "quality of life," defined as "working toilets." We are blessed with the finest toilet system in the world. When we go to a place such as a shopping mall or restaurant, we know that we will find public restrooms meeting all the standards of the Federal Interstate Commode Quality Act, including:* Modern soap and paper-towel dispensers designed to conserve our planet's precious resources by always being out of soap and paper towels.

Jim Calhoun should be on the sidelines of a basketball court, coaching the University of Connecticut men's team. Instead, he's been on medical leave for a painful arthritic condition. Calhoun's pain is caused by spinal stenosis, a medical condition that causes narrowing of the spinal column and crowding of the nerves and affects about 1 million people in the United States each year. Dr. Lee H. Riley III, chief of the spine division and associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, tells us about the symptoms of the disease, who typically gets it and how it is treated.

In a complaint claiming widespread racial discrimination and sexual harassment at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, more than a dozen employees have filed a class action lawsuit seeking damages in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.The employees -- including secretaires, program analysts and an administrative officer -- say supervisors harassed even high school students working in a vocational program at the lab, located near College Park in Prince George's County.The lawsuit claims the employees dealt with sexual innuendo, touching and grabbing on a daily basis.

It's a common refrain in Gia D'Anna's office: Extra inches that childbirth or time left around the middle are resisting diet and exercise. D'Anna is the office manager for a Lutherville plastic surgeon, and, as a mother, she sympathizes with the patients. She just got her own flat tummy back last year. Her boss, Dr. Ronald H. Schuster, had bought a machine that aimed to zap muffin tops and love handles via low temperatures. He was looking for volunteers on the staff before he rolled out the service to patients.

A man was shot in the buttocks during an attempted robbery early Wednesday morning in Northeast Baltimore, city police reported. Based on preliminary information, the man who was held up was shot at 3:39 a.m. in the 6800 block of Laurelton Avenue, in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood, police said. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment. Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

A 45-year-old Atlanta woman admitted Wednesday that she used a downtown Baltimore hotel room to inject exotic dancers with commercial-grade silicone, commonly used in furniture polish, to enlarge their buttocks, according to federal prosecutors. As part of her guilty plea in Baltimore's U.S. District Court, Kimberly D. Smedley conceded that she earned more than $200,000 giving silicone shots to women for eight years in cities around the country, using glue and cotton balls to prevent leakage.

The recent study estimating that there may have been 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military last year stirred a lot of tough talk from the Pentagon and the White House over the past 24 hours. But the question is whether that outrage will translate into much-needed reforms within the armed forces. On that front, we have our doubts. The U.S. military's failure to adequately address sex crimes within its ranks is hardly a new problem, but the rise of such incidents - up from 19,000 in 2010 - is shocking.

An Atlanta woman is going to federal prison for injecting the buttocks of women across the country with silicone intended to be used as a paint additive or furniture polish, with one procedure causing serious injuries to a Baltimore exotic dancer. The New York Post reported in 2008 that Kimberly D. Smedley was performing the illegal operations in Manhattan hotel rooms. Smedley was charged in November after a Baltimore stripper came forward saying that an injection performed in a downtown hotel nearly killed her. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Smedley, 46, to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.