"The interview still isn't picking something up, " worries Mayer, a former debate champion whose rapid speech races to catch up with an even faster brain.

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But it is easier than picking something up.

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When we smell something, our nose is picking up and recognizing a molecule, or a combination of molecules.

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And there were plenty of times, I tell you, that you'd come home tired, you don't want to hear the kids fuss, and popping something in the microwave or picking up a burger was just heaven.

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Mattie, still tying her robe, ran down the steps thinking stupidly, as she later reflected, only of the embarrassment to this woman, whom to tell the truth she had respected more than loved, and picking up and pressing back upon her the heavy silver, as if this was not something Roscoe should be doing, nor her husband, John Jameson, neither.

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"It's a great way to introduce people into something that then later becomes ... sort of their coping mechanism, as opposed to picking up a drink or a drug, " Strode said.

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