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Crack, a smokable form of cocaine, is a drug that might have been designed for use on the job. It is easy to conceal, since it burns with virtually no odor, and the gratification is swift: an intense, almost sexual euphoria that lasts only about five minutes and is not accompanied by such telltale side effects as alcohol's slurred speech and heroin's drowsiness...
...Randi Freeman and her husband Amir Omrani was up to snuff after they boarded a flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh last month. Airline personnel asked the couple to disembark, and a gate supervisor informed them that both the crew and assorted passengers had complained about their offensive body odor. Freeman and Omrani, an Iranian national, were given toiletries and sent to the washroom as the plane left without them...
...increase proposed last January may have seemed like a pay grab, with elected officials trying to hide behind the judges and bureaucrats who would have received comparable raises and who are not in such bad odor with the public. But a reasonable pay raise keyed to automatic cost of living increases -- in exchange for a total loophole-proof ban on honorariums, gifts and free trips -- looks like a bargain when put up against, say, the average $14 billion annual cost of the S & L bailout. Some degree of public financing of campaigns might also help cut the umbilical cord between...
...purifying plastic is no easy trick. Six months ago, for example, Continental Can began making detergent bottles from recycled milk containers. All went well until workers began noticing a faint aroma of milk in the final product. After a few months of tinkering, they finally managed to remove the odor. But that sort of problem is par for the course in the new recycling game...
...dirt road and turn off to a ramshackle pig farm in the next ravine. Finally a Cadillac with four men inside bumps along the track. The presence of guards at a pig farm, waving visitors through, confirms the group's suspicion that a batch was brewing, its odor lost in the waft from the barns. "Don't ask me; it's not mine," Big John says. "That's a bunch of Mexican nationals down there, and I'm not of a mind to visit...