Word: nosing
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...what an American commander described as "10 tons of munitions, rockets, mortars, the works." A tank was driven onto the tower. From his seat on the garrison roof, commander Mohammed Akbar guided mortar and tank fire to Taliban positions in the southwest. "Excellent--right on the nose!" he shouted, as bullets from Taliban snipers whizzed just over his head. Then came the next mistake...
...possible overlap of signals from different ORs is surprising because it implies that a single neuron in the brain could be stimulated by more than one type of receptor in the nose...
...experiments, a single receptor in the nose stimulated about 2 to 5 percent of the neurons in the olfactory cortex. The researchers had expected only about 0.1 percent of the neurons to be stimulated if the signals from receptors did not overlap...
...Weird,” she said, wrinkling her nose. “There was no HMV, no Gap-type stores when I was at school. But as for the Yard, it’s exactly the same...
...magazine…True Trash, Hilary calls them. Joanne calls the Moan-o-dramas. Right now it’s Joanne reading. She reads in a serious, histrionic voice, like someone on the radio…She’s got her sunglasses perched on the end of her nose, like a teacher. For extra hilarity she’s thrown in a fake English accent?...