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The woman, Amy Lappos, said in an interview with The Hartford Courant that Mr. Biden “put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me for like 10 …. 15 seconds” at a fund-raiser in Connecticut in 2009.

CNN's Chris Coumo dives into lowest TV viewer ratings while showing off the worst of losers, "The Rat Man" , Michael Cohen. Why? No one cares!!!

Human noses too cold for bird flu Bird flu may not have become the threat to humans that some predicted because our noses are too cold for the virus to thrive, UK researchers say. An Imperial College London recreation of the nose's environment found that at 32 degrees Celsius, avian flu viruses lose function and cannot spread. It is likely that the viruses have adapted to suit the warmer 40 degree environments in the guts of birds. A mutation would be needed before bird flu became a human problem, they said. Published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, the study also...

Explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell has had close encounters with vampire bats and angry bees, but his latest brush has been with a rather odd dog. He spotted a rare breed of Double-Nosed Andean tiger hound, which has two noses, on a recent trip to Bolivia. Xingu is said to be intelligent and fond of salty biscuits The chairman of the Scientific Exploration Society said the dog, named Xingu, was "not terribly handsome". He said: "This breed could be used for sniffing out mines or narcotics because they have an enhanced sense of smell." Colonel Blashford-Snell first encountered a Double-Nosed Andean...

Noses didn't need cold to evolve Bruce Bower From Milwaukee, at a joint meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society and American Association of Physical Anthropologists Fossil evidence that Neandertals possessed exceptionally large, broad noses has often been explained as an evolutionary response to life in cold, dry locales. An expansive schnoz might have warmed incoming cold air or expelled body heat during hunting and other strenuous activities. However, new data indicate that climate played no role in shaping the Neandertal nose. Marc R. Meyer of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his coworkers found similarly sized nasal passages in a...

Police: Chainsaw injury an accident By Norman Miller / News Staff Writer Tuesday, March 2, 2004 FRAMINGHAM -- Exactly how a man cut his nose off with a chainsaw Sunday is not known, and because police have ruled out foul play, the accident will not be investigated. "We don't have anything to investigate -- it was a medical call," said Lt. Lou Griffith. "It was just an accident." The fire department will not release the man's name due to federal regulations on patient privacy. On Sunday, the unidentified man walked up alone to the back of the Fire Headquarters building...

Weizmann Institute researchers have finally discovered why the saying "there's no accounting for taste" is true. A team headed by Prof. Doron Lancet of the molecular genetics department at the Rehovot institute found that some of the 1,000 genes responsible for the nose's odor-detecting receptors can be optional, causing some ethnic groups to smell what others cannot. And since the sense of smell is largely responsible for the sense of taste, this can affect flavor perception as well. It has been known for some time that the human genome comprises 1,000 genes that code for the nose's odor-detecting receptors. Of...

<p>SACRAMENTO - They're the indecisive and waiters, middle of the roaders, inattentive, the late deciders. Just hours shy of polls opening, they're still holding their noses and up for grabs - the greatest bumper crop of disaffected voters in California memory.</p>