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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/3135894.jpg?w=213&h=300" />The story of <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/middlesex_county_attempts_to_n.html">one small landfill's attempts to make itself less smelly</a>--by trucking in deodorant and spraying it onto heaps of garbage--has sure been&nbsp;<a href="http://gawker.com/5621352/the-very-real-odors-of-new-jersey">making</a> <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/08/can_mass-spraying_a_pleasant_s.html">the</a> <a href="http://gothamist.com/2010/08/24/middlesex_to_combat_garbage_odors_w.php">rounds</a> on the Internet. Yes, the dumps of New Jersey are smelly, and New Jersey is, in general, a dreary, shopping-plaza-filled landscape. But we&rsquo;d like offer a small defense of the overlooked hero of the story, landlord overlord Richard Fitamant.  Why? He is clearly a student of esteemed perfume critic Chandler Burr, and he shows that even the executive director of the Middlesex County Utilities Authority can enjoy the wonders of good smells.</p>
<p>He describes the deodorizing agent thusly: "It has a pleasant, showery smell. It&rsquo;s not offensive and it&rsquo;s not overpowering. It&rsquo;s a light scent." It's a far cry from Burr's <a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/scent-notes/">purple prose in <em>T</em> magazine</a>, where he describes Herm&egrave;s' latest women's perfume as "the milky scent of an infant's breath." We <em>swoon</em>. But this landfill man is on his way to great things, and great scents. We think the <em>Times</em> ought to get Mr. Burr and Mr. Fitamant acquainted as soon as possible, preferably by putting the critic on-assignment to determine the landfill's new top notes. The Gray Lady <a href="/2009/media/lean-times-city-escapes-regional-sections-may-be-cut-avoid-layoffs">used to have</a> a whole New Jersey section, after all.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/3135894.jpg?w=213&h=300" />The story of <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/middlesex_county_attempts_to_n.html">one small landfill's attempts to make itself less smelly</a>--by trucking in deodorant and spraying it onto heaps of garbage--has sure been&nbsp;<a href="http://gawker.com/5621352/the-very-real-odors-of-new-jersey">making</a> <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/08/can_mass-spraying_a_pleasant_s.html">the</a> <a href="http://gothamist.com/2010/08/24/middlesex_to_combat_garbage_odors_w.php">rounds</a> on the Internet. Yes, the dumps of New Jersey are smelly, and New Jersey is, in general, a dreary, shopping-plaza-filled landscape. But we&rsquo;d like offer a small defense of the overlooked hero of the story, landlord overlord Richard Fitamant.  Why? He is clearly a student of esteemed perfume critic Chandler Burr, and he shows that even the executive director of the Middlesex County Utilities Authority can enjoy the wonders of good smells.</p>
<p>He describes the deodorizing agent thusly: "It has a pleasant, showery smell. It&rsquo;s not offensive and it&rsquo;s not overpowering. It&rsquo;s a light scent." It's a far cry from Burr's <a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/scent-notes/">purple prose in <em>T</em> magazine</a>, where he describes Herm&egrave;s' latest women's perfume as "the milky scent of an infant's breath." We <em>swoon</em>. But this landfill man is on his way to great things, and great scents. We think the <em>Times</em> ought to get Mr. Burr and Mr. Fitamant acquainted as soon as possible, preferably by putting the critic on-assignment to determine the landfill's new top notes. The Gray Lady <a href="/2009/media/lean-times-city-escapes-regional-sections-may-be-cut-avoid-layoffs">used to have</a> a whole New Jersey section, after all.</p>
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