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...heard of teams not even having a smell of a chance to win a game. Well, last night at Boston Garden, the Crimson didn't even offer the Huskies half a sniff as Bob Harrison's club raced to an insurmountable 50-25 halftime lead...
...When the Mammoth Mountain people read your story, you will have a lot more than a fractured tibia. It will take a dozen St. Bernards to sniff you out from under an avalanche of critical mail for ignoring that great ski resort...
...amyl acetate (which smells like bananas) to see if they could tell the difference. They could. So they decided to give similar tests and to create a cadre of "trained noses." When a citizen complains about an odor, a jury of tested state employees will rush out to sniff and then decide if the law has been violated...
...chlorophyll content of ocean plankton, a principal source of the world's oxygen supply. By similar "fingerprinting," ERTS and its successors could warn of changes in the health of woodlands, detect harmful acidity in soil, find clues to new oil and mineral deposits, and perhaps even sniff out illegal fields of opium poppies...
...leaving bags containing barometric-pressure bombs that detonate at specific altitudes to be put aboard jets. Airlines responded by requiring passengers to hand over luggage personally on the assumption that no one flying in an airplane would bomb it. Now they are also experimenting with dogs that can sniff out explosives...