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...would like to report that my family travels well--that my three daughters do not bicker or pull hair or invent songs in which a sibling's name rhymes with smell-ah. And that our station wagon never veers from lane to lane as my husband peers over his shoulder to see whether the girls are cannibalizing one another in the back seat. But I would be lying. As summer approaches, I wonder whether we will survive another vacation...
...marks of unspeakable brutalities. People whose hands had been tied behind their backs and had then been shot at close range with a grenade launcher, leaving only a torso. The stench of the bodies, and the sight of bodies, and parts of bodies littering the streets, and the smell of fear on the troops. Those memories stay with you for a long time. You come out in a daze, and it's really hard to leave a story like that unfinished...
...theoretical “worst shower experience” may lend a clue to what this surveyor looks for in bodily cleansing. He describes: “Upon opening the bathroom door, a horrid, wretched smell jumps out of the bathroom which is filled with clothes, lichen, algae, bacteria—and there would be toothpaste on the sinks. Upon turning [the shower] on, I would notice that the water would slowly drip out of one of the spigots and there would be an inconsistent spray that barely misted my body. The soap would be impossible to remove, the curtain...
...other hand, an ideal showering situation includes “the smell of candy or women’s lotion. The spray would be soft, yet powerful and massaging. There should be the most expensive shampoos and conditioners with little signs saying ‘Please use these...
Gatto has a special talent for discovering pollution. He can smell a leaking septic tank from a moving vehicle. He once brought his patrol car to a screeching halt--to the shock of his passengers--and began sniffing the air like a bloodhound. Before long he found and ticketed an illegal septic bypass. No one is safe from Gatto's by-the-book zeal. In 1990, after a late-night dinner in a restaurant owned by a friend of his father's, he followed the odor of sewage into a back alley where he spotted a septic tank overflowing into...