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...Omen Mexico has banned the sale of whoopee cushions that make a razz and exude a smell when sat upon, because the toys made children dizzy and nauseous
...linguist afflicted with anything you would call a disorder. He's a synesthete--one of a small group of otherwise ordinary citizens who perceive the world in extraordinary ways. Synesthesia is a kind of crossing of sensory signals in which the stimulation of one sense evokes another; purple may smell like kiwi; the aroma of mint may feel like glass; letters and digits might scroll by in Technicolor. This week a few dozen synesthetes and the psychologists who study them will gather at Princeton University for the first meeting of the American Synesthesia Association--a society devoted to furthering research...
...basis of the suit is the smell of a cartel. Web sites of individual airlines have long contained fares not available on, say, Expedia - a legitimate move designed to draw customers and thus avoid having to pay commissions to the independent agents. However, opponents say, if the Big Five get together, they are likely to offer such fares on their own combination site, thus providing an online petri dish for anticompetitive collusion. At first, say critics, those fares will beat those of their competitors, but once the competitors are forced into submission - either by bankruptcy...
...love the smell of Turf Builder in the morning. And lumpy men in plaid make me weak. Can I make a career out of my favorite things...
...scholar, not a leader. Stuck in the ivory tower of inaction to the last, Rudenstine will hand over his office to Summers untainted by momentous decisions changing the course of Harvard’s history—though it will be irrevocably tainted by the smell of 30 unwashed undergraduates...