Word: nosed
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...image we all remember from the London terror bombings last July 7 is a grainy snapshot. The picture, captured on a mobile phone camera, shows people escaping from a subway train. In the foreground, a man is holding a cloth over his nose and mouth so he can breathe more easily in the smoky subway.The photograph, one of the best examples to date of a phenomenon many call citizen journalism, reflects the democratization of information. The collision of media and technology has given us powerful, inexpensive tools to create digital content, ranging from blogs to podcasts to videos and more...
Cartier's resident "nose," Mathilde Laurent, left, will meet with clients at least four times in the store's Salon des Parfums. Over the course of two or three hours, Laurent will grill clients about why they like to wear perfume, what their favorite childhood fragrances were and which ingredients they use when cooking. In subsequent appointments, clients are given three prototypes from which to choose, and then Laurent adds the final touches to the fragrance. The process can take anywhere from six months to three years, depending on the client, and costs $72,600. The finished product arrives...
Ironically, Laurent, who has worked as a perfumer for 11 years, does not wear any fragrance. "I want to stay clean," she says. "If you want to work well with fragrances, you have to have a fresh nose...
...Torino.” It was an awkward twist, this, his new fitness agenda, driving nails. As fate would have it for the surehanded All-Ivy shortstop, so was the accident that led him there.“You think a ball hits you in the nose, that’s enough pain right there,” Walsh says. “But you never think that you’re going to be on the emergency table at two in the morning, almost bleeding to death.”“And that’s what...
...stay awake to the point of sleep deprivation and then try to fly again. After 30 hours, I felt more exhausted than I could ever remember. Then I was back in the cockpit. Remarkably, all those simple landing sequences were suddenly much harder to remember. Just keeping the nose of the plane level was a real challenge. Had I been flying a real 747, my passengers would have had a very bumpy ride...