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Environmental officials in the San Francisco Bay Area have an assortment of instruments designed to monitor and evaluate the chemical and particle content of the air, but they have found no device yet that can match the human nose in detecting odors. In fact, the proboscis does such a good job that the Bay Area Regional Control Board recently established a panel of three people to screen odors. "In all fairness to the polluters, we will screen out hypersensitive noses," explained Tom Story, of the San Francisco Bay Area air-pollution control board, "and in all fairness...
...entire staff of 200 at the smog agency is being tested for the nose jobs. Each employee is asked to don a mask attached to a dynamic olfactometer−a machine that regulates the strength of an odor by diluting it with air. Then he is subjected to a series of odor samples of varying strengths to establish the range in which his nose can identify 80% of the samples at a high odor concentration level and miss 80% at a low level. That range is known as the "confusion zone." When the tests are completed, the 100 employees with...
...humanity spells havoc for the summer. On the highways, in the depths of the national parks, in the roadside inns and amusement parks, in the still of the night, 10 million kids are going to upchuck their french fries, 5 million more will smear their cones into Daddy's nose while he is driving, numerous unruly teen-agers will get themselves bitten in the behind by surly bears gone berserk amid the frenzy of Yosemite, dozens of tennis foursomes will never speak to one another again, hundreds of budding romances will expire into a heap, mothers-in-law will weep...
...fresh as a daisy" and "in the wink of an eye"). He can resist neither foreign phrases nor their quick translation ("Entendu. Understood"). He fussily overexplains his English as well: "Her husband was a hatter. Yes, a maker of hats." Some of the language is, alas, inexplicable: "His nose was long and authentic-looking...
...height of the Korean War in 1951, hundreds of G.I.s were struck by a malady characterized by fever and bleeding from the mouth, nose and internal organs. Nothing medics did seemed to help. Most of the soldiers eventually recovered, and the mysterious ailment was later identified as epidemic hemorrhagic fever. But Army doctors were unable to find either the cause of the disease or how it was transmitted...