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...alleged remains of St. Joan of Arc were fake. The relics of the iconic saint - burned alive for heresy and witchcraft in 1431 but rehabilitated as a French hero in the 19th century - have been identified as the remnants of an Egyptian mummy, a small cat and scraps of wood...
...well as using carbon dating and infrared analysis, Charlier employed the unusual technique of olfacation, or sniffing. In a blind test, two smell experts from French perfumeries Guerlain and Jean Patou whiffed samples of burnt wood, decomposed bones and skin, and noted the odors. "The smells weren't all horrible," says Sylvain Delacourte of Guerlain. "Some were pleasant and fragrant." The predominant scent, vanilla, indicated that the relics came from a body that had decomposed naturally; the organic compound vanillin is produced during this process. Set alight while tied to a stake (three times over, if legend...
...like, ‘At last! We’ve done what we’ve wanted. We’ve made people angry because they’ve read the stuff and they’ve replied,” says Greif.Among the most prominent responders is James Wood, senior editor of The New Republic and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard. In the initial issue of n+1, the editors wrote, “Poor James Wood! Now here was a talent—but an odd one, with a narrow, aesthetician?...
...that Emilio Estevez made a bad film. It's just that, like the family of the man whose story it tells, there's so much of it: too many stars (including Elijah Wood and Lindsay Lohan, above right), too many story lines, too many messages. Laurence Fishburne offers wisdom over blueberry cobbler! Ashton Kutcher's a peaceful stoner! Helen Hunt's rich but sad! It's as if Estevez fears history isn't interesting enough...
...babes-in-the-wood approach to the outdated monster of the E.U., which is stripping away 1,000 years of Britain's history and the very foundation of all our ancient freedoms, raises my worst fears about who controls TIME these days. My wife's comment was, "Well, they are Americans." Does this, I wonder, say it all? Michael A. Clark, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND...