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7/1/09 Newsletter on hold.

3/26/09 Spring 2009 newsletter available for download. German translation of Winter 2008 newsletter also available.

12/12/08 Russian translation of Winter 08 newsletter — Гид по ароматам (зима 2008) — now available. German translation to come later this month.

12/2/08 Winter 2008 newsletter now online. Russian translation online next week, and German translation the following week.

11/7/08 The GUIDE is on Amazon's Best Books of 2008, Editors' Picks.

11/7/08 LT's 15-minute lecture on his theory of smell at TED 2005 is online.

The newsletter is on hold (possibly permanently).

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