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...inferior to those of the Chinese workers. "The Chinese think we are animals," says a welder named Nenge, who refuses to give me his full name lest he get fired from his job. "No days off, sometimes tinned fish for overtime pay, dirty latrines with a bad smell. How can they respect themselves after treating us so poorly...
...wind that students threw feces down the stairs of Mather House’s B entryway, presumably making it smell worse than Lamont Library after live-in students stay there for more than a week before finals. And presumably making its floor sticker than the floor at [insert where you were Friday night...
Students living in other parts of the building said the only damage they noticed ranged from waterlogged carpets to a “smoky smell...
...independence. After 2½ years in jail (for being caught with anti-Dutch paraphernalia), you'd think anything would be a welcome change. But Pram, as he's popularly known, found the place foul and unlivable. The gutters were full of human ordure and the air stale from the smell of "cheap death," he recalled in the story "My Kampung," from his early collection Tales from Djakarta. Its mordant stories revolve around what is now Jakarta's central Merdeka (Freedom) Square, and the streets close...
Born and his team have also been able to influence memory recall during sleep - not with sounds, but with odors. In that study, published in March 2007 in Science, researchers asked people to play a memory card game while the smell of roses wafted through a special face mask. Later that night, when the participants were fast asleep, the same odor was delivered to some of them. The following morning, each person played the same game, and the results were clear: the players who got the nighttime rose odor were significantly better at remembering the card pairs than the group...