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...smell of smoke lingered in the entryway yesterday and a large, sickle-shaped scar is visible on the wooden door...
...escaped the attention of the people around him? Rees-Jones, interrogated before his departure for Britain this week, told investigators that Paul seemed "just fine" that night. The other Fayed-family bodyguard on duty that night, Alexander ("Kez") Wingfield, 32, has also said Paul behaved normally and did not smell of alcohol even at close range. Both bodyguards told investigators that it would have been their duty to prevent Paul from driving had they had the slightest suspicion that he was drunk...
...thing, Greene says, we should suspend our natural preference for animals with fur, feathers and facial expressions. Then, he says, we would be able to start appreciating snakes for their "special beauty and mystique"--and for such unique characteristics as their extraordinary sense of smell, their amazing versatility, their stunning coloration and a repertoire of deadly toxins that could serve as a model for future drugs...
Most astonishing to Greene are snakes' keen senses--of smell, temperature and touch--which make up for their lack of external ears and limited vision (except for night snakes, which have catlike eyes). That flickering forked tongue, for example, loathsome as it may seem, actually gives the snake the chemical equivalent of stereoscopic vision; by responding to the relative number of odors on either side of the tongue, the snake can pinpoint potential prey, mates or enemies. Pit vipers, for their part, are equipped with keen infrared sensors near their nostrils, so even if blinded, they can strike a mouse...
GOSSIP by Cindy Adams $18.50 for 1 oz. Over a bowl of pasta at Patsy's restaurant, the New York Post's society columnist Cindy Adams realized, "Gossip is in the air. Everyone wants a whiff of it." The smell? Spicy, with nothing subtle about...