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...seemed that some 30,000 gulls nested on Kent Island, an island in the Bay of Fundy. There also was a bird called the Leach's Petrel, which nested in burrows. "Petrels have a smell," said Jim. "You get down on your knees and smell the entrance to a burrow ... well, it's distinctive. You reach your arm in and if you're lucky you'll find a bird or an egg or both.... We would listen for the call at night. The call is in two parts--well, I'd know it if I heard it again...
...such cases, says Dr. Critchley, indifference to pain is congenital. No hereditary pattern has been detected; it occurs in different races, equally often in men and women. The painproof individuals sometimes have a poor sense of smell or taste, but their skins are anatomically normal, with the usual number of nerve endings. They feel the pinpricks or burns and can tell where they are located, but they do not react-perhaps because of an abnormality in the higher centers of the brain. In some, the indifference to pain seems to have worn off somewhat in later life. Strangely, there...
...Sweet Smell of Success. In Olympia, Wash., wrung out after an all-night vigil at a maternity hospital, proud father John Arends bent to kiss his wife as she was wheeled from the delivery room, caught a lingering whiff of ether, passed out cold on the concrete floor, was rushed to emergency for eight stitches in his face, repairs to two broken teeth...
...will not please those with spurs to polish or assagais to grind. Blame, he says, lies on both sides of the color bar. Monsarrat has settled for the honest and general indignation of the 'philosophical dictum that a man born into the world with a sense of smell has a duty to cry "stinking fish...
...room temperature, so they are messier than the solid saturated fats (lard, suet, butter). As a result, manufacturers of shortening usually hydrogenate their unsaturated fats-by adding a couple of hydrogen atoms under heat and pressure. This turns part of the unsaturated fats into saturated fats, which look better, smell better and keep better...