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Anyone who has run the department-store gauntlet, dodging spritzer-wielding salespeople, knows that smelling good is serious business. In the U.S. more than 1,000 fragrances emit a heady bouquet--$5 billion in annual sales. The scent of all that money, however, seems to have lured some unlikely folks into the fragrance business. Some of the more curious perfume personalities...
...charged particles manage to leak through. Some are trapped to form the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the earth. Others spiral down the magnetic field lines that project from the North and South poles. Energy unleashed by this disturbance excites atoms of nitrogen and oxygen, which in turn emit pulses of colored light. The result: an aurora...
...experts say Eldrick ("Tiger") Woods strikes a golf ball so hard that the sound it makes in flight is unique--a kind of whining swoosh, occasionally accompanied by the crack of a club head caving in. The balls that emit this signature sound routinely travel farther than those of any other tournament player...
...Here I stand. The Gingrich freshmen vowed no compromise; liberals wrote them down as fascists. The Million Man March, otherwise admirable, provided the platform for minister Louis Farrakhan's elaborate numerological fantasies, the very arithmetic of the universe clicking in conspiracy. Whitewater and Vincent Foster's death continued to emit a low-intensity radioactive glow (a marvelously double-jointed paranoid bumper sticker said IF VINCE FOSTER HAD OWNED A GUN, HE WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY). And, of course, an elaborate police conspiracy framed O.J. Simpson for a double murder...
...others, O.K. is only relative. Black branches of burn marks crisscross the child's body, and he cannot play outdoors because the sun's rays would further damage his skin. He breathes through a tracheotomy tube, and at the age when most children are beginning to talk, he can emit only a gurgle. At night he sleeps attached to a ventilator, a humidifier and a heart monitor. He has undergone surgery 12 times in the past 12 months...