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...went out to Suffolk Downs early one Saturday morning and walked down the road to the stables. Nothing is more peaceful than a stable in the morning. As I passed the rows of stalls, the sweet smell of fresh hay floated up from the hay bins. Dogs and goats lolled in the bright sun. I watched a horse flick its tail lazily. He munched quietly on his hay, grinding the stalks with horizontal sweeps of his lower jaw. Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" drifted over from the Track Kitchen...
Most Americans still think of urban blight in terms of immediate effects: filth, smoke and noise that all can see, smell and hear. But dirty cities affect far more than the people in them; they also poison the distant countryside-as Los Angeles is now doing to the San Bernardino National Forest, which is fully 80 miles away...
...smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
...device does not have to start from scratch. Much of the know-how has already been accumulated by a Chicago lab called the Olfactronics and Odor Science Center, part of the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute. Under a $300,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, the smell researchers have developed a prototype "bomb sniffer" that scents incriminating odors with all the dispatch of a highly trained bloodhound. In fact, the system has so impressed the Israelis that they have adapted and improved the design for their own harassed airliners, though they have not officially acknowledged...
...minis v. midis: "I dress in whatever way excites the man I'm with." On movies: "I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me I'm not quite alive." On acting: "As soon as they say 'Action' I can smell in the first two seconds whether I am going to get on the wave or not. And if you don't get on you have this disastrous feeling, I can tell you-it's like love without climax." On Women's Liberation types: "I think they...