Some of the business that came through the doors at Giuliani Partners bore the odor of rank opportunism.

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When he got a job at Atari, given his odor, he was swiftly moved into the night shift, where he would be less disruptive to the nostrils of his fellow colleagues.

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His mother, identified Wednesday as Kiana Workman, 38, of New York City's Brooklyn borough, was discovered dead Tuesday on the floor of her bedroom after maintenance workers at the apartment complex in northern New Jersey reported a foul odor.

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She tries to relax into a high state of alert, if that is at all possible, and then picks up Zaak's pungent body odor, the unwashed detritus of a qaat-chewer's unhealthy living.

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Also at Monell Center, faculty member Pamela Dalton showed that stress levels decreased faster when people were exposed to the body odor of a family member rather than that of a stranger or a neutral fragrance.

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