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- Feb. 01, 1993: Health and Science:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- HEALTH & SCIENCE, Page 23
- Et Cetera
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- <body>
- <p> This Job Stinks
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- <p> Can you smell the difference between burnt vanilla and worn
- socks? If so, you might pass the test to get a new job with
- Japan's Environment Agency. It is recruiting human bloodhounds
- to sniff out sources of the foul odors that generate 10,000
- complaints each year from the fastidious Japanese. Officials
- have used machines to track down smells, but these
- olfactometers are no substitute for the human nostril.
- "Measurement of offensive odors," says Manami Fujikura of the
- agency's special-pollution division, "needs expert knowledge and
- technique." And a strong stomach.
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- </body>
- </article>
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