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...season with this week's psycho farce, What About Bob? Billy Crystal will dude it up out West in City Slickers, Martin Short will bank on Pure Luck, and John Candy will go Delirious. The easiest hit to pick is a farce sequel, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear...
...list of contributing authors includes renowed commentators like novelists W.P. Kinsella, Robert Coover and "Baseball for Peace" mastermind Jay Feldman, as well as many talented rookies. As for the stories themselves...you can almost feel the press of the fans and smell the seat on a broken-in mitt...
...findings, published in the current issue of the journal Cell, suggest that the sense of smell may work very differently. When odor molecules drift among the millions of tiny cilia located high in the nasal cavity, they seem to slip into certain odor receptors like keys into locks. The fact that there are such a large number of different kinds of odor receptors suggests that much of the work of discriminating among smells is being carried out at a chemical level within the nose itself. Signals from these receptors are then transmitted to the olfactory bulb, the small region...
This makes a certain amount of sense from an evolutionary point of view. Although humans tend to treasure sight above all other senses, primitive animals probably relied more heavily on smell than on vision for their survival. And since their small brain size may have limited their capacity to process large quantities of information, they needed lots of specialized cells to do the work of identifying, say, the smell of food that had spoiled or the odors associated with fertility and reproduction...
...motley convoy stops before the small town of Altun Kupri, 25 miles from Kirkuk, and everyone jumps out. A truck with a flat tire zooms by from the direction of the city carrying wounded. One can smell the odor of burned flesh as it passes. As the twilight gathers, Abdul Rahman Aju Ali, 54, a barrel- shaped man with fierce eyes, explains, "We will attack at night...