Word: sandalwood
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...VEERAPPAN, 60, India's most-wanted bandit; in a jungle shootout with police; near Chennai, India. Regarded by the poor as a Robin Hood who fought the ruling classes on their behalf, he was accused of murdering 130 police officers, slaughtering elephants and smuggling millions of dollars of illegal sandalwood and ivory. The outlaw, who lived in the forest, was reportedly lured to his death by his doctor, who talked him into an ambulance by telling him he needed eye surgery. DIED. PIERRE SALINGER, 79, White House press secretary for U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...
...Grasse was once famous for its fields of wildflowers, which used to be laboriously hand pressed to make perfumes. But most of the flowers are now grown in cheap-labor countries like Bulgaria and China. Grasse also imports hundreds of exotic ingredients, such as Indian sandalwood and Madagascar patchouli leaf. These days, however, synthetics often mimic traditional perfume ingredients like ambergris (a substance found in a sperm whale's intestines) and musk (taken from a gland near the foreskin of a Himalayan deer...
...bumper crop of mosquitoes, making for a very buggy summer. The good news: whether you are concerned about the West Nile virus or just want to enjoy the outdoors bite-free, there is a fresh crop of products out this year that promise to fight mosquitoes. There are candles, sandalwood sticks, zappers, and traps that emit carbon dioxide (part of what attracts mosquitoes to humans). A Korean cell-phone maker is selling a ring tone that it claims will repel blood-thirsty bugs. The bad news is that the effectiveness of some of these new offerings is questionable...
...protect the whole yard from mosquitoes there are two promising options. Sandalwood Mosquito Sticks from New Mountain can repel the bugs from a patio-size area. Like giant incense sticks, the all-natural repellents smolder for three to four hours...
...bamboo thickets on either side of the road. You'll know you've reached the national park by the roadside checkpoints manned by wildlife officers. They're on the lookout for the illegal hunters and smugglers who roam this wild area, trading in both ivory and aromatic sandalwood trees. Bandits have made the place their Sherwood Forest. The infamous Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, known for a long run of kidnappings, is reputed to have funded operations from woodland spoils, and has eluded capture by disappearing among the trees...