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...Officers were dispatched to 20 Prescott St. on a report of the scent of smoke in the building. Officers determined the smell came from a snuffed out candle...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...must-haves in the trendy kitchen. The ghostly white blades are made by Kyocera of Japan and Boker of Germany with zirconium oxide, which is second in hardness only to diamond. They stay sharp 10 times as long as steel and don't react with food or affect its smell or taste. They are also lightweight, making repetitive chopping less of a strain. The hardness of the blades makes them less flexible, however, and they should not be used for cutting that requires maneuverability, such as carving. And there's not yet a reliable method for home sharpening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: Cutting-Edge Ceramics | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...came close to success. Even the members of the religious right seem to embrace the losing nature of their struggle. Do they really believe wives are about to declare obedience to husbands or that gays are about to go back to the 1950s? Or is it the very smell of cultural gunpowder that keeps them alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Year of the Insurgents | 12/30/2004 | See Source »

In calculating his odds of getting confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and his advisers had reckoned they could handle the issue of Kerik's reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Kerik's Fall | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...secret to Gonzalez's freakish stamina is the triple grande vanilla latte. "I'm totally a coffee junkie," she says. "If I can smell coffee around me, I must stop and have one. And now there are Starbucks inside Target stores and supermarkets, which makes it harder to resist." Gonzalez estimates that she consumes a pot of coffee a day, but she refuses to speculate about the sums of money she drops at the Seattle-based coffee chain. So dependent is Gonzalez on caffeine that she says she can't remember conversations until she has had her morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleep is for Sissies | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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