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...those readers who are not males between the ages of 16 and 22, is a James Bond-style shoot-’em-up game for Microsoft’s Xbox video game system that is set in a distant galaxy at the center of which is a gaseous ring formation called “HALO.” Since its release in the fall of 2001, HALO has exploded in popularity among male college students, and the Harvard campus is not immune. Part of its popularity is the versatility of play it allows: you can play distant friends over...
...anyone who can breathe--partygoers, rioters, even enemy forces. Scientists have tested the effectiveness of such odors as vomit, burnt hair, sewage, rotting flesh and a potent concoction known euphemistically as "U.S. Government Standard Bathroom Malodor." But don't expect to get a whiff anytime soon. Like all gaseous weapons, malodorants once released are hard to control, and their use is strictly limited by international chemical-weapons treaties...
...anyone who can breathe - partygoers, rioters, even enemy forces. Scientists have tested the effectiveness of such odors as vomit, burnt hair, sewage, rotting flesh and a potent concoction known euphemistically as "U.S. Government Standard Bathroom Malodor." But don't expect to get a whiff anytime soon. Like all gaseous weapons, malodorants once released are hard to control, and their use is strictly limited by international chemical-weapons treaties...
CONSTELLATION PEGASUS This Place Has Atmosphere America?s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the Hubble telescope has detected the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, 150 light years away. The discovery sparked hopes of finding extra-terrestrial life, since scientists believe a gaseous atmosphere may point to other life-forms. But the planet, about the size of Jupiter and circling a star in the constellation Pegasus, has an atmosphere loaded with sodium, nasa officials said, and would be too hot for life as we know...
...There are precious few of these in print. And fewer on the web, where scanning the sites - with all their gaseous nattering and gossiping - can give one the sense of being trapped in a Tower of Hollywood Babble...