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...quite picture your next holiday, try this: for three minutes you can experience 3-D images of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, catch a whiff of musty mummies, suck in a Red Sea breeze or spices at a local suq?all courtesy of a headset you can try on at a travel agent. "They're based on real-life smells?including mummies?and then exaggerated to become recognizable," says Jason Cremins of the U.K.-based Remote Media, which developed the technology. Beginning in January, European tour operator Thomson took the $28,000 headset around four British cities to help...
...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder If you can't quite picture your next holiday, try this: for three minutes you can experience 3-D images of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, catch a whiff of musty mummies, suck in a Red Sea breeze or spices at a local suq - all courtesy of a headset you can try on at a travel agent. "They're based on real-life smells - including mummies - and then exaggerated to become recognizable," says Jason Cremins of the U.K.-based Remote...
Some popular opposition is developing. To give the nascent market system a chance to work, Peking abolished some subsidies for food, clothing and utility production and gradually freed some industrial prices. One result was a whiff of that old capitalist evil, inflation: in some cities, food prices jumped 35% in early 1985. The blow was softened by a continuation of wage increases begun immediately after Mao's death. Nonetheless the price boosts stirred widespread grumbling, particularly among older Chinese who retain bitter memories of the hyper-inflation that preceded the Communist takeover...
...with that level of political awareness. They always have a secret, over-riding agenda, spelled out in the earnings reports of their corporate masters: sell product. This is the "ick-factor" that makes some people roll their eyes when they hear about mainstream superheroes taking on meaningful subjects. A whiff of exploitation follows Spider-Man and his ilk wherever they go. Using him to comment on September 11, for example, would be as gross as using Snap, Crackle...
Down a dirt road, amid rolling hills of alfalfa, Larry and Madonna Sorell's 40-acre spread looks, smells and sounds like any other Kansas homestead. The weathered wooden farmhouse. The whiff of manure. The cacophony of grunting, gobbling and bleating. But the livestock at Lazy S Farms are no ordinary farm animals. Rooting about in the fields are Red Wattle pigs, a breed thought to have been imported from New Caledonia in the 1700s and practically extinct until a wild herd surfaced in Texas. The turkeys are Standard American Bronzes, which were Thanksgiving fare for more than a century...