Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nightmare. Afterward, I often dreamed of the final days of the war, of trains under fire, of soldiers being hanged for desertion, of refugees in desperate flight. In time the dreams would become more infrequent and the memories fuzzier, but never-even a lifetime later-would I forget the smell of May 1945, the strange combination of rubble and early summer, of something dying and something about to be born...
...successful in polluting his room, though. "I used organic fertilizer," he says. His roommate puts it bluntly: "He made my room smell like shit," says Nigel Tufnel (not his real alias...
...Johnny. They have no qualms about inorganic chemicals; they both use MiracleGro. Johnny's room has a pleasant pot aroma, but he says the smell doesn't give him away. "I don't think there's too many people who know what growing marijuana smells like...
...cranes and backhoes and heavy equipment marched in, as did the specialists with listening devices and remote-sensing equipment, and dogs to help sniff out victims. The animals discovered at least 50 people, none of them alive. One trainer brought a dog specially trained to find babies, who smell different from adults. But the only child they found was already dead...
...broken down into fragments that are stored all over the brain. The memory of a rose, for example, doesn't exist in any one place in the cerebrum. Instead it is created anew every time a person thinks about it, from subunits of sensation based on color, shape and smell. There is no mind's eye that records everything like a videotape...