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...born and bred in Hepburn. Her father, a surgeon, campaigned against venereal diseases. Her mother, who earned graduate degrees from Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe, fought for legalized birth control and women's suffrage. "I was taught to speak out. My parents welcomed debate," Hepburn said in 1981. "My smell for reality comes from them." Kate, who made her public debut at 8 in a Votes for Women Crusade and later spent afternoons handing out leaflets to factory workers, followed her mother's path to Bryn Mawr--and was suspended for smoking. By rebelling, throughout her life, she was simply being...
...must smell this one!" exclaims maitre fromager and affineur Daphne Zepos, inhaling deeply from a pungent wheel of Tomme au Marc cheese. "It smells like a walk in the forest in October...
...idyllic landscape. And rising real estate prices crimp on Enel's effort to expand, too. This "clean" energy source, in truth, falls short of immaculate. The old, large cooling towers, which look like nuclear power plants, spoil the view for kilometers around, and the energy production leaves a sulfuric smell in the air. Still, it is safe compared to nuclear power, hardly pollutes the air, and doesn't consume fossil fuel. A new generation of plants with sleeker design, and chemists' efforts to reduce the odor problem, may help. For Enel, which is among the world leaders in renewable energy...
...piece of pipe that was all nasty, that we found in a closet.” The pipe had a capacity of six beers at a time, creating an epic mess on the ground floor. “You’d walk into Pennypacker for weeks afterward and smell the stench from the puddles that were left there.” As a result of the third floor’s activities, the fire stairways in Pennypacker have been subsequently alarmed, ensuring that future generations will not have the pleasure of inhaling alcohol from a stories-high tube...
Uday, however, was much more dangerous. The smallest thing could set him off. He was a stickler for personal hygiene, recalls a butler, and hated the smell of sweat. One summer day Uday stopped the butler and said, "What the hell is that smell?" Uday ordered five falaqa lashes on the butler's right foot and five in his right armpit. On another occasion, the butler says he received 160 falaqa for the sin of serving Uday's food on the wrong type of plate...