Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew from the start that there wasn't much future in marketing my olfactory senses. By the time I started my sophomore year, there was a new head of dining services--we finally had food you could eat, as well as smell...
...friends were amazed. We were at a school where classmates were creating their own mathematical formulas and writing computer programs that could run New England Telephone, and I could smell dinner from 200 yards away. We all felt so talented--and so glad to be around talented people...
Luckily, I had decided early on to develop other skills. I joined the media. The Harvard media--home of the future cultural elite. I learned how to stomach greasy hamburgers at four in the morning while inhaling secondhand cigar smoke and ink fumes. Most importantly, I learned how to smell a scandal from miles away...
Nebraska author Willa Cather made plowing seem poetic, even sensual. "There are few scenes more gratifying than a spring plowing in that country," she wrote, "where the furrows of a single field often lie a mile in length, and the brown earth, with such a strong, clean smell, and such a power of growth and fertility in it, yields itself eagerly to the plow, rolls away from the shear, not even dimming the brightness of the metal, with a soft, deep sigh of happiness...
...name it, and Olympic track star Jeanette Bolden, 32, is probably allergic to it. Household dust, cats, seafood. Just the smell of fish cooking on a grill is enough to make her eyes puff up and start to water. But Bolden's allergies are linked to a more serious problem. Like 15 million other Americans, she suffers from asthma, a chronic affliction of the airways in the lungs that can turn the simplest act of breathing into hard labor and leave a person gasping, coughing and wheezing for air. Last fall the gold medalist (100-m relay, 1984) was hospitalized...