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...asked each member to give personal preferences and professional assessments. He says that helps clients avoid having individual quirks (a hatred of apples caused by having to eat one every day after school or a resentment of violets because they call to mind being ditched on prom night) cloud the search for a suitable corporate scent. Each smelling session was limited to just a couple of samples, since the nose's ability to discern differences declines as choices rise. Toward the end of the process the Sony execs had nearly settled on a blend of orange and vanilla, with...
...scandals in politics, whether gay or straight, are usually about an abuse of power. Foley was using his position as an elected representative to allegedly troll for action in the page school. He got caught, but he is the only the latest House member to resign under a cloud this year. The House Republicans are on their third speaker in 11 years in power; the previous two were forced out by scandal as well. Tom DeLay stepped down as leader and then announced his retirement under the threat of an indictment. Those left behind are self-destructing and forming...
...fictitious Philpot Institute in Cambridge, Goodman—whose first book of short stories, “Total Immersion,” was published the year she graduated from Harvard—chronicles the meteoric rise of a young scientist who falls victim to a poisonous cloud of suspicion over his research. While the novel can be engaging and will evoke a few chuckles, the storyline is often unclear and frustrating for the reader to follow...
...dialogue between and thoughts of each individual character. At the beginning, Cliff, one of the lab’s dashing young scientists, believes he has achieved a scientific breakthrough when a virus he injects into cancer-ridden mice surpisingly shrinks tumors. However, the entire lab soon falls under a cloud of suspicion when Robin, his girlfriend, begins to question the validity of his work. As the lab transitions from a period of jubilation to embarrassment, each character’s behavior is candidly relayed by Goodman, shedding light on a rarely-seen dimension of the scientific world...
...clear: Saddam Hussein was a butcher. Kofi Annan claims that the countries of the Middle East are unhappy with the actions of the coalition. Does that include those who have declared that Israel should be wiped off the map? It's time some people got out of cloud-cuckoo-land and into reality. Action, not words, saves lives when terrorism is involved. Millions more would have been saved if we had acted "illegally" toward the Nazi regime in the 1930s. The free world has much to thank George W. Bush and Tony Blair for, and I for one applaud their...