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SCRATCH AND SNIFF Don't hold your breath, but you may someday be able to take a smell test for Alzheimer's. Patients with mild memory problems were asked to scratch and sniff odor-infused patches and then identify the scent. During a two-year follow-up, none of those who could accurately distinguish peanut from pizza, for example, went on to develop Alzheimer's. But nearly half who scored poorly--and, interestingly, didn't realize they had an impaired sense of smell--did develop the disease. Apparently the olfactory pathway, and probably the area in the brain responsible...
...spray ammunition at a beast until he struck a haunch or horn or dewlap. And then he'd wear the poor thing down. The godfather of American conservation and founder of the national parks was capable of gleeful sacrilege and atrocity when he got the scent. In "The Wilderness Hunter," Roosevelt records this moment: "On the way an eagle came soaring over head, and I shot at it twice without success. Having once killed an eagle on the wing with a rifle, I always have a lurking hope that sometime I may be able to repeat the feat. I revenged...
...traced if this package was lost, but with typical intern bravado I looked like I had signed many of these before. As I stood near him, the temperature in the office building seemed to rise from its normal level of refrigeration. The room also filled with a rich musty scent of a courier at work...
DIED. VITTORIO GASSMAN, 77, urbane Italian actor who appeared in hundreds of plays and films including The Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) and Scent of a Woman (1974), which earned him a Best Actor award at Cannes and was later remade in English with Al Pacino; in Rome. Dubbed the "Olivier of Italy," Gassman flirted with Hollywood in the 1950s when he was briefly married to actress Shelley Winters...
...automatic rifle and his sheepdog Mikey, Barnett sometimes tracks a group of illegals for miles, following their footprints in the sand and bits of clothing snagged on the mesquite thorns. In the summer it's harder for his dog to track them; the incandescent heat sears away their scent. "They move across the desert like a centipede, 40 or 50 people at a time," says Barnett. Once he catches them, Barnett radios the border patrol to cart them off his land. "You always get one or two that are defiant," says Barnett, who chuckles, remembering an incident a few weeks...