Word: bells
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...pitched battles between gangs - Birmingham's Peaky Blinders, Liverpool's High Rip or the Monkey's Parade from London's East End - the look was edgier. A youth worker in the 1890s noted that a proper Manchester "scuttler" could be identified by a loose white scarf, plastered-down hair, bell-bottom trousers and a girlfriend who "commonly wore clogs and a shawl and a skirt with vertical stripes...
...from scratch. Sarkozy has never been big on patience. Throughout his career, he's been the one who pasted up the most posters, made the most phone calls, organized the biggest crowds. Proud of his brashness, he once boasted: "When I'm not invited to dinner, I ring the bell anyway, and it's rare that I'm not asked to stay." But now that he's presiding at the head of the table, the question is whether his hard-driving, often divisive style will serve France as well as it has served his stellar political career. Patrick Devedjian...
...Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...perfect scent isn't worth anything, though, until it leaves the laboratory. To capture and translate the smell of a plant for consumers, IFF relies on a kind of camera for smell. The bell-shaped glass tool captures a living plant's "headspace": the air surrounding it. Using chromatography and mass spectrometry, scientists analyze the captured molecules, and computer programs help map out the plants' primary components. Most have between 60 and 120, with as many as 100 minor notes. Developers re-create the smell using natural or synthetic oils. To do that, IFF draws on a rotating...