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Daydreaming about Harvard in high school, you may have imagined wood-panel rooms lined with dozens of Gutenberg Bibles and the busts of ancient Greek philosophers—a haven where students would absorb knowledge from the mere scent of the ancient books surrounding them. Uhhhh...maybe not. Maybe you just smoked pot or played the sousaphone. But anyway, you'll grant FlyBy that studying at Harvard is not quite the stuff of dreams (especially in the early morning). That's where the House libraries come in. Many replicate a sense...
...filled with recessed lighting and features a first-rate bar and restaurant. Service, which is never reliable in Russia, is as good as it gets in Moscow. Plus there's the spa, which is run by an English-speaking staff and seems to be permanently infused with the scent of jasmine and a soft, very hip soundtrack that will make you feel younger than you are - which would seem to be the whole point of all those treatments...
...like a very intimate little love affair we've got going. But around Groundhog Day he's most ornery cause it's breeding season and he is trying to assert his dominance so that other males will stay away. He makes an awful screeching sound and then he scent marks my house and I have to go and clean it up. He's looking for a wife. I had one all set up and then we had the current economic situation and the exhibit was put on hold and I had to pass on the wife...
...sentiment from Italian movies, Dino Risi, 91, provided robust entertainment in many genres. Among his 80-some features were 17 starring Vittorio Gassman, most prominently the cynical social fable Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life and the blind-officer-on-a-toot drama Profuma di Donna / Scent of a Woman, remade in Hollywood with Al Pacino. Risi's string of affairs with gorgeous actresses, including Anita Ekberg and Alida Valli, provides the answer to the question: Why do guys become directors...
...fertile female will chemically mark the pretender; that female will then be attacked by lower-ranking females. Biologists Jürgen Liebig and Adrian Smith of Arizona State University suspected that something similar might go on even without the queen's intervention and believed the answer might lie in scent chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons...