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Another member of the class, Gitanjali S.Bodner '90, said she "wasn't really bothered" bythe slaughter, "except for the smell. It didn'treally bother me to kill something...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: VES Students Slaughter Birds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...Last Monday morning, 62 in. into the porous limestone, the carbide-tipped drill broke through. Pieter Tans, a research scientist from the University of Colorado in Boulder, filled six canisters with 159 quarts of air drawn from the chamber. He also took a sniff. Said Tans: "I did not smell history. I didn't smell anything, except maybe staleness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Probing The Chambers of Cheops | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Rose for Emily," in Collected Stories, William Faulkner. Just what is the secret of Miss Emily's past? And what exactly has become of her mysterious lover? And what, may we ask, is that awful smell coming form the attic of Miss Emily's...Wait a minute! Don't wanna give it all away, heh heh. But this is a story to put chest on your hairs, and it beats plowing through Absalom, Absalom!, another potentially potent 'Ween read...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...must have laughed, because they all glared at me. But later, walking home in the almost dark, with the sweet-sharp smell of burning leaves in the air, I got to thinking what a hard job you've taken on. "My people aren't paradise people," you say. You imagine them arriving in heaven and somebody saying "No, thank you, we can't stay for eternity, we'll just sit and have a few minutes of bliss with you and then we have to get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just A Few Minutes of Bliss LEAVING HOME | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...like museums, can't take it for very long," he says. "They smell funny when...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Friendly Artist Makes Cambridge His Galllery | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

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