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...biochemical magic underlies this incredible metamorphosis? The instructions programmed into the genes, of course. Scientists have recently discovered, for instance, that a gene nicknamed "sonic hedgehog" (after the popular video game Sonic the Hedgehog) determines the fate of neurons in the spinal cord and the brain. Like a strong scent carried by the wind, the protein encoded by the hedgehog gene (so called because in its absence, fruit-fly embryos sprout a coat of prickles) diffuses outward from the cells that produce it, becoming fainter and fainter. Columbia University neurobiologist Thomas Jessell has found that it takes middling concentrations...
Last weekend, Crosby says, she woke to the scent of French toast and pancakes her son had made for both of them...
...microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma will be sweetly familiar to patrons of casinos, racetracks and presidential elections. It's the smell of luck...
...chapel on Cumberland had been reserved for three months. Certainly, the planning began at least two months ago, when Bessette asked Narciso Rodriguez of Cerruti to start designing her dress. For weeks in August and September, Kennedy and Bessette seemed to be purposefully throwing the press off the scent. He was seen around New York City on his own. She was in Paris, and the papers gave an account of her night out with a Frenchman at a fashionable restaurant. The man turned out to be Rodriguez. "I am her supposed French lover," he later joked...
Ironically, just a few blocks away from where the scent of marijuana lingered in the air, a few hundred people showed up for the 11th annual "Just Say No to Drugs...