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...walked out of the room. We were worried that she was going to drop the class, but when we followed her, we discovered she had only gone to drop a brown Hindenburg in the Science Center bathroom. Every rose has its thorn, and some thorns stink so bad we had to pull the fire alarm. Oh, the humanity. Our search for the perfect woman continued in Historical Study B-24: “Utopia in the Age of the Scientific Revolution.” Even though the course isn’t offered this semester, sitting in the empty-room...
...green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur who placed the ad, Philip Tobin, was quoted as saying that smokers "stink." If you eat a pungent lunch, says Jenkins, "you might stink...
...Hammer is forced to agree. "There in the muck and slime of the jungle, there in the stink that hung over the beaches rising from the bodies of the dead, there in the half-light of too many dusks and dawns laced together with the crisscrossed patterns of bullets, I had gotten a taste of death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization.... Maybe it did happen to me over there.... Maybe I was twisted and rotten inside. Maybe I would be washed down the sewer with...
Delighted to see that his son loved nature, Thee took him camping and encouraged his interest in biology and dissection. Mittie was not so enthusiastic. Dead-animal stink and the reeking chemicals used to preserve hides upset the decorum of her parlor. But nature and the science of nature were the solace of Roosevelt's invalid childhood, a refuge where he could achieve intellectual mastery at a young age. Under his father's loving tutelage, T.R. fashioned himself into a naturalist whose specimens can be viewed in museums today; scientists later welcomed him as an equal into their debates about...
...thinks he has the answer. The cancer researcher turned inventor has patented a technique for chemically bonding bacteria-fighting polymers to such fabrics as gauze bandages, cotton T shirts and men's underpants. It's a technology with an unusually wide variety of uses, from underwear that doesn't stink to hospital dressings that thwart infections...