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...WHIFF OF HISTORY
There was a whiff of the future in the Taser. When inventor Jack Cover, who died Feb. 7 at 88, first conceived his controversial stun gun, he imagined a world in which danger could be averted without the use of deadly force...
...Some interpret Sarkozy's comments as sniping that the Czechs are not up to the task of running the E.U., a task they took over from Sarkozy himself at the start of the year. There is also whiff of 'Old Europe' sneering at the E.U.'s newer eastern European members. But Hans Martens, chief executive of the European Policy Centre (EPC), says it is more a reflection of a Gallic instinct to intervene...
Aside from an appealing sense of rarity, multiple births carry a nostalgic whiff of the idea of a big, sprawling family at a time when the American nuclear family is largely shrinking. Shows like TLC's Duggar's Big Family Album, on which an Arkansas couple flaunts their 17 (!) children, or the same network's Jon & Kate Plus 8 (more like Jon & Kate Plus 8 Plus The People They're Reportedly Having Affairs With) sell the idea of multiples as special. In the case of Jon and Kate Gosselin, who gave birth to a set of twins...
...ourselves. All manner of lawsuits, divorces and blood feuds can erupt over people breeding when - or with whom - they oughtn't. Often, the methods used to expose the cheaters aren't terribly different from those of the ants: more than one philanderer, after all, has been exposed by a whiff of the wrong perfume on his clothes when he came home. "The idea that social harmony is dependent on strict systems to prevent and punish cheating seems to apply to most successful societies," Liebig explained in a comment released with his paper. Regardless of the genome, in matters...