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...that means that concocting your own fragrance is now a relatively painless and inexpensive task. With a good nose, about $36 and two hours to spare, you can mix your own scent at Parfumerie Galimard's Le Studio de Fragrance, tel: (33-4) 9309 2000. There are 137 essences to choose from as you blend top notes (the ones that hit you as soon as you smell a fragrance) with fond, or base, ones (the scent that lingers after you've left a room...
...tigers on the subcontinent at the turn of the 20th century, but today there are only 3,200 to 4,500. The British and others relentlessly hunted them, and the West was fascinated with tiger-skin rugs. For the Chinese, each part of a tiger's body, from its nose to its tail, is an aphrodisiac. In India, utter poverty forces people to become poachers. Result: the clock is ticking for the tiger. Although science can land us on the moon, it cannot bring back an extinct species. Rajat Ghai Baroda, India The Mechanics of Democracy Hugo Chavez, love...
...planes. The reduction in drag saves almost 30 kilograms of jet fuel per hour. Pilots now shut off one engine while they taxi, saving yet more fuel. And luggage is now loaded farther aft, shifting each plane's center of gravity and helping to keep the nose lifted with less power while flying. "We've got to make these ideas work," says Lee Chul Hyung, head of the fuel-management team. "Fuel costs are gobbling our profits. What could be more serious than that...
...Japan and the Philippines had become his primary home bases, and he reportedly reveled in the relative anonymity they afforded him. Yet Fischer never truly went into hiding. He traveled using his real identity and passport, and he twice dared to pass directly under the U.S. government's nose. In 1997, Fischer renewed his passport at the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and he returned there in 2003 to get 20 new passport pages...
...peasantry, so Huang spent years planting wheat on a farm. When the nearest medical school reopened in 1978, he won a place in its first class at age 23. He later studied at New York University and Rutgers, where Dr. Young introduced him to the wonders of the nose...