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...UNSEXY ODORS L.A. cops smear skunk-smelling gel to clear prostitutes and johns from crack houses. Next up: stinky gun pellets to scatter them from afar...
...even if it doesn't congregate as often as it did back when 30 million people would watch a network show on a typical night. Every so often, we get the call--we gather for Joe Millionaire or buy that Harry Potter book. Then, show over, book read, we scatter: back to VH1 or our Scarface DVDS or our scrapbooking chat rooms...
...Neighbors aren't particularly interested in what goes on down the hall; they'll probably be moving on themselves before long. As the police tell it, that new anonymity helped Ma and a female accomplice lure a dozen women to their Shenzhen home, chop them to bits and secretly scatter their body parts along a riverbank without drawing suspicion. "I thought he was odd," says Ma's neighbor Zeng, who is from Sichuan province. "But so many people come and go that I didn't pay much mind...
Appetizers? In almost scatter-shot fashion, I go with sha phaley (bread patties stuffed with chopped beef, cilantro, and scallion), cucumber salad dressed in cilantro and yogurt, and temma soup, with lentils, tomatoes, onions and garlic, each about...
Smart Dust These computerized motes are still a bit bigger than dust--about the size of a matchbox--but the concept holds: scatter a bunch of these radio-equipped wireless sensors across a battlefield, and they could track troop movements; embed them in a road, and they could deliver a traffic report. They're already detecting climate conditions at a California vineyard and monitoring energy use in supermarkets...