Word: stinks
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...Nike phenomenon is challenging Confucian-style deference to elders too. At the Nike shop in a ritzy Shanghai shopping mall, Zhen Zhiye, 22, a dental hygienist in a miniskirt, persuades her elderly aunt, who has worn only cheap sneakers that she says "make my feet stink," to drop $60 on a new pair. Zhen explains the "fragrant possibilities" of higher-quality shoes and chides her aunt for her dowdy ways. Her aunt settles on a cross trainer. For most of China's history, this exchange would have been unthinkable. "In our tradition, elders pass culture to youth," says researcher Zhang...
...think there's any question about that. Now it's gone Malcolm X. It's gone "by any means necessary." I mean, how many campaigns do you remember where Hitler has come up a lot? If I were the Hitler people, I'd be raising a stink. I think he's gotta protect his legacy. He's gotta come out and go, Look, all right, you guys have your flaws but, hey, I was evil, baby...
...took one sock from each person and placed it in a regular washing machine; the others were washed in a machine with the Ag+ Nano System. The next day I asked everyone to check the odor of their socks after a day's wear. One began to stink, and the other was odorless...
...while promoting the earnestly talentless, off-key William Hung types. None of the contestants are clued in to the hoax until the end. "What's extraordinary is to see people who are convinced that they're going to be the next pop star go up there and just stink up the joint," says Fleiss. "It's incredible. I'm grateful for it." The winner--or at least the longest-serving loser--is rewarded with a $100,000 recording contract. Isn't the public humiliation of it all a little too mean? Says Fleiss: "Too mean? Nah, that never crossed...
...This is not a good ballclub when you come out and stink the joint up like that,” said Harvard coach Joe Walsh. “[We’re in the] consolation game tomorrow. Nobody wants to be in one of those games, but we deserve...