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

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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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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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