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...microextractor, is a $100 penlike device that can record the specific molecules present around anything with a smell. Fennel, cucumber, melon, tomato leaf, black plum and hydroponic celery might soon start to show up as notes in consumer fragrances. Scent notes of Japanese ginger, Indian mango, lantana leaves, evening maiden orchids and pickled jalape�o peppers could also appear in the next generation of soaps and shampoos...
...patrons included a “good mix” of undergraduates and recent graduates. The day after the pub’s grand opening festivities, Corker was speechless—he had lost his voice after staying the entire length of the pub’s maiden shift from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. “One of my favorite moments was overhearing the following comment: ‘I have never seen half the people here—this is exactly what Harvard needs!’” Corker wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...case in many fairy tales, the characters tended not to act rationally, and some plot details were overlooked: Prince Roderick climbed in and out of Rapunzel’s tower without bothering to use her rope of hair, and when the maiden escaped her stairless perch, she simply walked down the stairs without any explanation...
...stump, Rudd's key words are fairness, flexibility and prosperity. Like former Labor leader Mark Latham, he embodies the point where Labor's social project meets its "economic escalator." Go back to Rudd's maiden speech. It's the education revolution, comrade. The other great wave of sentiment that Labor is riding is shaped more by fear than hope. For Ruddites, it's climate change time. Rudd's approach on global warming is to flay Howard for being a skeptic; any government action taken, Labor claims, is insincere, inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade...
Gates is a major donor to the University. In 1996, he and Ballmer contributed $25 million to construct the computer-science building Maxwell Dworkin, which bears their mothers’ maiden names...