Word: smelling
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...services to, and in full self-flagellation mode, walked past the tent of people body-casting women's breasts, the human-foosball table and even the circle of naked tai-chi practitioners. Instead, I went to Penelope's Pit Stop, a tent dedicated to those who enjoy the smell of male armpits. This, needless to say, was not me. And after three days of camping, it was not for anyone with food in their systems...
SCRATCH AND SNIFF Don't hold your breath, but you may someday be able to take a smell test for Alzheimer's. Patients with mild memory problems were asked to scratch and sniff odor-infused patches and then identify the scent. During a two-year follow-up, none of those who could accurately distinguish peanut from pizza, for example, went on to develop Alzheimer's. But nearly half who scored poorly--and, interestingly, didn't realize they had an impaired sense of smell--did develop the disease. Apparently the olfactory pathway, and probably the area in the brain responsible...
...their ice skates and their recording projects. But his behavior at home worried his father. "I knew he was depressed," says Les. "He'd sleep for a week. And then he was like a Ninja warrior, moving silently around the house, coming out at night to eat. I'd smell the food." Franklin says he left his son notes saying he loved him, but Jamon refused antidepressant medication, assuring his father that he would never follow his brother's path...
...wife Marianne returned from a trip to Europe to discover a sickly sweet smell permeating their home. Then Les found the source: Jamon's decomposing body in the backseat of a restored Cadillac in the attached four-car garage. Jamon had apparently suffocated himself with carbon-monoxide fumes...
...thought I was a decent father," he says in the house where the smell of death still lingers. "I've cried so hard my face hurts." And yet something within him still grasps at a solution. "Somehow we've got to bring happiness back onto the planet so that people will want to live..." He reaches for a more precise word. "So that children will want to live...