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...Victoria line when he smelled what he describes as "burning tires and wires" in his car. Mohelleei said that he did not hear anything, and did not see any smoke, but that the smell was overwhelming. He said that people started to panic as soon as they smelt the burning. "I could not figure out why people were panicking," he said, " but I realized that there was no time to think...
...HUPD officer reported the possibility of three people smoking marijuana in Mather Lot after determining the area smelt of the drug’s odor. The responding officer searched the party for marijuana. Finding none, the party was sent away...
...They had audaciously established a settlement on Greenland's comparatively mild southern coast, but they too overextended their environment and paid the price. Among many other blunders, they shortsightedly depleted the local forests (deforestation is a major theme in Collapse), which left them without the wood they needed to smelt iron. Icelanders were stunned when Greenlanders sailed into port in ships held together with wooden pegs and baleen instead of nails...
Cambridge city councilors surpass themselves whenever they try to squeeze more money out of Harvard. Only five years ago, Cambridge renegotiated its ten-year payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement with Harvard. Now Cambridge’s politicos have smelt the opportunity for politically salutary Harvard-bashing...
...years old, the dam generates less than 1% of the region's electricity and would be more expensive to maintain than destroy. Never popular with locals, the Arase has also been blamed for exacerbating rather than controlling floods as well as causing the extinction of a local species of smelt. Still, with the project costing taxpayers an estimated $39 million and an additional dam still scheduled to go up just 40 kilometers away, the Arase dam's deconstruction may only prove that the Japanese government can spend money even when it's removing something. But some observers insist this could...