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...Thinking Tag get-together, people wander about and let their badges do the work. When they approach within five feet of each other, pairs of tags sniff and display their results in a neat row of five red and green leds. What happens when you encounter someone who sets off five red lights? Do you turn heel and flee to a more compatible piece of chestware? In the "tag meets" that Borovoy has run, that hasn't been the case. "People are very sophisticated readers," he says. Opposites, after all, sometimes attract...
Hannan calls Drexel, who has bounded away from the ramp to sniff some daisies. Then Hannan gets ready to skate for 15 minutes before heading home to Somerville to relieve the babysitter...
...SNIFF, SNIFF...
...always had big shoulders And safely Democratic officeholders. The passing of the years has hardly blurred The wrenching sounds that all who listened heard: Great tumult on the floor, and in the lulls The thwacking of cops' billy clubs on skulls. Obscenities were shouted by the mayor; A sniff of tear gas drifted through the air. But now the smell of victory is strong, So all the warring factions get along With factions that they loved then to disparage: They're bound up in a peaceful, loveless marriage. The party hardly argues any more; It has in fact become...
...most popular genre, however, is one sci-fi purists disdain: endlessly replicating paperbacks based on movies and TV shows, notably Star Wars and Star Trek. "Movie tie-ins outsell regular science fiction by quite a bit," Brown says with a sniff. "We don't consider them real science fiction." A bit more acceptable, though still off the point, are traditional sword-and-sorcery fantasies like Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords (Tor), which debuted at No. 2 on last week's New York Times list...