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Sensitive

After reading Elizabeth Rock's article ("Advanced Human Sniffing Abilities") I feel vindicated. Since the age of 26, I have been able to identify who has been using my office telephone by sniffing the receiver.

P. Yasemin vanBeuzekom
Cambridge, MA

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Hail, and Farewell

Your report about the unfortunate weather and earthquakes that disrupted our first annual conference was accurate to a fault ("Uncertainty and Scattering at the Sub-Molecular Biology Conference"). But as a session chairperson at the conference, I must point out that your report neglected to mention the worst part, the "coup de grace." After the dust storm, and after the rain, and after the locusts, the meeting finally fell apart when a five-hour hail storm descended upon us. Yes, five hours. Some of the hailstones were four inches in diameter. Yes, four inches. I am advocating that next year we do the meeting via teleconferencing.

Vladimir Asa Petric, Ph.D., M.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

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