Normally this is when a pilot begins gently lifting the nose in what is called a flare.

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You get what you pay for--a dog's nose has 2 billion odor receptors, 40 times as many as a human's--but there are limits to what even the military is willing to spend on an animal.

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Columbia University's Richard Axel, whose work on mapping the genes and receptors of our sense of smell garnered the 2004 Nobel prize for physiology, said the kinds of experiments revealed this week would not resolve the debate - only a microscopic look at the receptors in the nose would finally show what is at work.

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We look in the mirror and wonder what it would be like if and only if we could lose 15 pounds, had a smaller nose, longer eyelashes, a bigger (or smaller) chest, longer legs, so forth.

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On Monday evening, while discussing how to cover the arrival of ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman and describing his array of tattoos and nose rings, we did what wasn't possible in the past: We Googled him from a local restaurant.

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Anyway, now he has been issued a subpoena by the justice department to tell what he knows about the massive doping scheme run seemingly right under his nose.

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