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...habit of smoking is disgusting to sight, repulsive to smell, dangerous to the brain, noxious to the lung, spreading its fumes around the smoker as foul as those that come from Hell." -King James I, 1604, a few years after Sir Walter Raleigh brought tobacco to England...
...easy to come by this summer, however, when their George Foreman grill was their primary cooking tool. Although it is hard to imagine how the grill could lead to unwanted mess, the offensive linemen insist that no amount of cleaning could rid their room of a mysterious smell...
Even with the smell, the three still couldn’t wait to get off work and eat together. Bakken worked at Mellon Financial, Mujalli worked at a tech start-up and Traverso worked on a research project. They would meet up after work to lift, then ate at Uno’s (all-you-can-eat Tuesdays) or raced home to the Foreman Grill...
...easily accessible running water. The silver medalist—and the more practical course of action if you are in the middle of a field—is “running as far away from other people so they don’t have to see, hear or smell you throw up,” Ms. Mannersmith says. And if worst comes to worst, she adds, there’s always the ever-convenient plastic...
...Koong had never recognized the risks he took by submerging himself in the capital's fetid canals. "I guess I'd grown used to the smell," he says. "But after Big's accident, I started smelling it again, and I had second thoughts about jumping into the water every day." Other residents are also taking a newly wary whiff of the centuries-old klong network, which had inspired 17th century European missionaries to dub Bangkok the "Venice of the East." The city's 10 million residents produce 2.4 million cubic meters of wastewater per day but just 500,000 cubic...