Word: nose
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...animal, there are few things as valuable as a good nose. In a world without speech, it's often scent alone that tells you if a stranger is in the mood to mate or in distress, is preparing to attack or about to retreat in fear. The chemicals that carry these odorless messages are called pheromones, and while most animals produce them, the highest animals--humans--were thought to be above such crude olfactory signals...
...noticed the problem at the beginning of February. Dr. William Berger of Mission Viejo, Calif., picked up on it two weeks later. That was just about when Dr. Donald Pulver of Rochester, N.Y., realized, as he puts it, that "everybody, including my wife, was complaining about itchy eyes, stuffy nose, dry cough--the classic signs of an allergy attack." Classic, except that the allergy season wasn't due to begin for at least a month...
...Britain apparently hasn't stopped sending its delinquents Down Under. While on tour in Australia, Oasis' lead mouthpiece, LIAM GALLAGHER, allegedly head-butted and broke the nose of a fan who tried to snap his picture. The singer was released on bail, just in time to hit an all-time low in Brisbane, bickering onstage with the rest of the band and, worse, inflicting his whingeing vocals on the audience. To round off Gallagher's stellar week, Cathay Pacific Airways barred the rock group from its flights. A spokeswoman claims that Gallagher threatened to stab one of the airline...
...glasses prescription preventing me from seeing the blackboards in the distance of the Science Center lecture halls or, more alarmingly, the books on my lap as I sat in my bedroom. The weak light of the overhead fixture's faint beams of light were blurring the letters even at nose-distance from the page. Yet if the problem stretched beyond my room, I figured, there would be signs...
Next time you're about to comment nastily about the bright yellow laundry bag, hold your tongue, put your finger on the side of your nose, and show your classmates that you support them. PAUL S. GUTMAN...