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...ingredients . . . er, components, are described in Pentagonese worthy of Star Wars. Vanilla flavoring is called for "in such quantities that its presence shall be organoleptically detected, but not to a pronounced degree." Translation: having some taste and smell. Preparation instructions run on for five pages, requiring that "the blended fruitcake batter, sufficient to yield the specified weight, shall then be deposited into cans with liners and disks" and baked at not more than 375° or steamed "to meet the end requirements of 3.5," another section of MIL-F-14499F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fruitycake: A yummy MIL-F-14499F | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...know a stink when I smell one," he declared. Responded Thatcher: "The government has conducted itself properly and responsibly. There is no cause for an inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Coptergate, A crisis tests Thatcher's iron | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...book will ultimately appear in more than 30 languages. Someday, centuries hence, this phenomenon may seem easily explicable. Of course: How could such a book fail? After all, it is about a physically repulsive 18th century Frenchman with no discernible personality, no body odor and the keenest sense of smell the world has ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Nose Knows: PERFUME | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...police. They arrest the mother and hand her progeny over to church authorities, who baptize him Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. The tyke's wet nurses keep quitting. He drinks too greedily, they complain, and there is something else truly spooky about him. Explains one woman: "He doesn't smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Nose Knows: PERFUME | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...While all arboreal dwellings are a treat for the senses-there's the smell of freshly cut timber, the creak of branches and the sound of wind whistling through the leaves-few are as spectacularly luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehousecompany.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company erected in an ash in West Sussex, England, for instance, has all that plus a telephone connection, a spiral staircase, 13 windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posh Perches | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

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