Word: nosed
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...Bush says Kim has failed to keep a promise to freeze North Korea's nuclear program. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman replies that America's new President is "worrying about others when he can't wipe his own nose...
...little to like in the leaders she interviewed. "They're brilliant propagandists, and it's awesome how cohesive they are at a local level," she says. "But they just thought it was funny that a housewife from Provence should be interested." A history graduate of Cambridge, Dean has a nose for detail. The references to pop songs and TV programs sometimes have the whiff of the library about them. But the details that matter - the inner turmoil of the compromised prison officer, the mother who wants a son, not a hero - smell of real and rarer history. From...
That's because the vomeronasal organ, a pheromone-sensitive structure in the nose that's very active in mice, for example, is largely vestigial in humans. Although it now seems that pheromones are somehow involved in arousal, their role could still be minimal. Says Hamer: "They're certainly not as important as they are in the mouse, who can't rely on gawking at cheerleaders to get turned on." Still, there's no harm in taking a sniff next time you meet someone attractive--as long you do it discreetly...
...team was given the same skull data and measurements but was not told where they came from. This Tut has a markedly weaker chin and sharper nose...
...just over the cost of the surgery and the source of the cells (the Terpstras say at least something good is coming from the terminations) but over the science underpinning the treatment. There's some evidence in animal studies that oegs, which are key helper cells in the nose, can also help spinal-cord nerve fibers regenerate. But Huang's use of the unproven procedure on human beings, without using control groups as comparisons or studying patients' progress after treatment, disturbs scientists and MND and paralysis support groups around the world...