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A physician at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine reported in April that a 21-year-old college student suffers from phantosmia, a condition that causes her to emit an odor so foul that she cannot eat or engage in ordinary school activities because she cannot concentrate.
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Last year, after Galaxy Cheese Company’s factory in New Castle, Pennsylvania, burned to the ground, the owner relocated to Orlando, Florida, taking along 23 employees but leaving the rest behind. Recently another cheese company, Northwood, moved to New Castle and hired many of the laid-off Galaxy workers. Galaxy then notified those former employees that it would take legal action against them because they had promised Galaxy not to work for any other cheese company in New Castle for two years after “leaving” Galaxy.
Creme de la Weird
Willie R. Love was charged in May with stabbing his apartment-house neighbor Karen Jaster, 39, to death in Madison, Wisconsin. The two had been feuding over each other’s loud music, and Jaster had kept her stereo on full blast for 36 straight hours to annoy Love.
