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...Israel has shown otherwise. From animal studies, the scientists knew that some odors are detected more easily when they're flowing past nasal tissue quickly, and others when they're moving slowly. So the researchers tested human subjects with a mix of two chemicals, asking them to sniff through one nostril, then the other. Sure enough, as reported in last week's issue of Nature, the sniffers thought they were smelling different mixtures when they were really just getting a different olfactory take on a single mixture...
...ornery messages snailing out of fax machines, snatches of arias on the sound track and enough slo-mo shots to extend the movie's running, or ambling, time to 2 1/2 hours. And those endless conferences! The viewer almost has to be a journalist--or a good editor--to sniff out the meat under...
...distinguished scientists on the stage rubbed their sleeves and inhaled, one audience member noted the rarely seen phenomenon of "scratch-and-sniff Nobel laureates...
...truth, eh? We know a guy who can sniff that out, and he works not far away, in Washington. Fellow name of Fox Mulder...
...superintendents to report any potentially dangerous student to police immediately. School districts are alarmed by the governmental consternation. Just last week, 150 calls were directed to Russ Ebersole, who runs a small but suddenly lucrative Bethesda, Md., firm that takes $500 from schools to bring in Labrador retrievers that sniff out bombs and gunpowder. Even so, after the worst school massacre in this country's history, there must be something we can do. Right...