Kalamazoo links broccoli smell to sewer system

An official said he's found a source of the city's long-running mystery stink. Public Services Director Bruce Merchant says the "rotten broccoli" smell that's bothered residents of northeastern Kalamazoo since last summer comes from the sewer system.

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Pink locks get Michigan girl locked out of school

Eleven-year-old Natasha Rzanca has been out of Sawyer Elementary School for more than a week. The fifth-grader from the school in the Upper Peninsula community of Gwinn isn't sick and says she hasn't been suspended. The cause of her absence? She has pink hair.

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Nuns sue NYC tenants over 'vomit-like' food smells

Nuns who own a New York City apartment house have filed a lawsuit saying a tenant couple is stinking up the building with "horrible" food smells "similar to that of vomit or rotten meat." The lawsuit by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart Inc. says Gloria and Michael Lim are causing "foul and harmful odors" to come from their 16th floor apartment by cooking and smoking large quantities of fish.

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Sludge from the wastewater treatment plant in downtown Pensacola is treated, pasteurized and dried into fertilizer pellets. And the pellets are sold to the Zachary Co., which resells them to sod farms, plant nurseries and golf courses.

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A Dallas inventor says your smelly car is the reason you're high-strung, overweight and terrible at your job

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It's something no one likes to talk about, but which is hard to ignore: those terrible smells that come with eating certain foods, or doing certain things. You certainly notice them when they're coming from other people. But do you wonder sometimes, "Do I smell?

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Fed up villagers are protesting about a town that smells so bad that nearly 30 marriage proposals have failed because the grooms can't stand the stink.

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A man was stabbed after causing a stink — literally — in a motel room while eating with a friend, police said.

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An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas.

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Excerpt: There has been CCTV, finger printing and eye recognition. Now comes body odour profiling. In its ongoing efforts to nail the bad guys, the US Department of Homeland Security is investing heavily in the sniff test: "odourprint".

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Excerpt: Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is a lucky man. He's one of the few humans who's been launched into space. He's on the ISS. And, perhaps most importantly, he's helping test a pair of magic underpants.

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FORT PIERCE — A 31-year-old woman on Wednesday found a likely unwelcome surprise on her porch -- a human bowel movement with an "overwhelming" stench, according to a police report released Thursday.

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The residents of a south coast town could be forgiven for thinking they had woken up in France this week after the entire area was engulfed by a huge cloud of garlic.

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The gas responsible for the foul odour of flatulence and rotten eggs may play an important role in regulating blood pressure, Canadian researchers say in a study released Friday.

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Enough about the election! I was glad to discover this story-- which provides a welcome relief from the stench of politics.

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A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds. The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.

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American Airlines Flight 915 from Miami to Bogota, Colombia, was delayed Wednesday night after a skunk was found in the back of the cargo hold, discharging its foul odor throughout the aircraft, airline officials said.

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Football fans have caused a stink in Basle by ignoring hundreds of portaloos and insisting on relieving themselves against walls and in the streets, it was reported Tuesday.

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It wafted in on the morning wind, setting off a spate of panic calls to the emergency services. And every one asked the same question: What's that terrible smell?

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A foul smell enveloped London and the south east today but it has been blamed on a cloud of pungent fumes wafting over from France. Experts warned the hundreds of thousands who wrinkled up their noses this morning not to panic.

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However crappy your job may seem, you should take comfort in the fact that there are men and women out there whose jobs are way stinkier than yours

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A mysterious odor shut down a section of Newark Airport for about two hours Saturday and led to delays for several hundred travelers, authorities said.

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The answer may stink, but eating or drinking anything gives us gas. In fact, it's normal to fart up to half of a gallon (1.9 liters), or about 15 to 20 toots worth of gas, each day.

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TURNERS FALLS, Mass. --This nasty rescue is no fish tale.Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail to a friend Mass. RSS feed Available RSS feeds Most e-mailed Share on Digg Share on Facebook  Save this article powered by Del.icio.us More:

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A ride in a big-city taxicab is always an adventure--for instance, making a last-minute left turn from the far-right lane of Manhattan's Fifth Ave. at rush hour. It can be an overwhelming olfactory experience as well.

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"I had an incident in middle school where a bunch of kids cornered me in the cafeteria and threw tuna fish sandwiches at me."

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A plumbing company gives its "no-stink guarantee." The company cannot, at this time, offer a similar no-plumber's-crack guarantee.

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A whiff of bad breath can hint at matters more serious than a meal of onions and garlic or a skipped tooth brushing. Foul exhalations warn of gum disease, dry mouth, and other unhealthy medical conditions.

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