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...engineers is sometimes blamed on me. According to some pundits, kids read the Dilbert comic strip and decide they don't want to spend their life confined to cubicles and being menaced by pointy-haired bosses. I don't know if that's true, but it does pass the sniff test. According to the parents who e-mail me, a lot of family conversations are beginning with the question, "Mommy, what's a mission statement?" and ending with the entire family in tears...
Although woods are a rarity in and around Harvard Square, even by taking brisk walk along the Charles, you can immerse yourself in the Boston of burnt orange leaves, sunny days and chilly nights and the occasional sniff of burning wood. The physical beauty conjures up images of pilgrims, Puritans and preachers. Boston in the fall can be a symbol for rugged individualism; man conquers nature and reaps the harvest fruits and vegetables for which he says thanks in late November. Hay-rides, horses and apple-picking are all lingering nostalgia for Boston's agrarian past...
Pack that collection of scratch-and-sniff stickers...
...working out, you could hang on to 80% of your gains." Aspiring athletes can take the hormones for a few months in high school, qualify for a lucrative college scholarship, then stop taking the drugs before sophisticated lab tests (which are beyond the reach of most high schools) can sniff them...
...there is no trace of Silverman. But knowing the Kimeses' record, police fear the worst. They have used bloodhounds in Silverman's town house and nearby Central Park to try to sniff out her trail. And they are pursuing leads that she may have been killed and dumped in the grassy medians along New Jersey's Garden State Parkway, where the Kimeses are believed to have driven the afternoon Silverman vanished...