Word: boils
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...geographic and religious origins of much of this city's population. What pleased the local diners so heartily was a hastily acquired skill at crumbling bits of half-baked yeast buns into a bowl that was then taken to the kitchen where it was brought to a frothy boil along with mutton, beef, noodles, vegetables, coriander and scallions. Puffed up like tiny spaetzle, the bread dumplings fleshed out a satisfying soup that was made fiery, sharp and aromatic with additions of chili and sesame oils, and winy, amber-colored aged vinegar. Many ganbei, or toasts, drunk with the strong-smelling...
...large that it will engulf the planet Mercury, perhaps extending to encompass the orbit of the earth. Even if the swollen sun stretches no farther out than Mercury, however, the heat reaching earth will be from 500 to 1,000 times as great as it is today. Oceans will boil, and life will be incinerated...
Finally, after a cycle of contraction and re-expansion, the sun's surface gravity will be so low the outer layers will boil off into space, leaving behind only the naked core, a lump of matter about as big as the earth, but with 60% of the sun's original mass, glowing blue-hot at perhaps 120,000 degrees C. That stage will mark the end of the sun's active life; its nuclear fires will never again turn on. Slowly it will cool until it is first a white dwarf, still glowing, then a cold black dwarf, a cinder...
PREFECT INSTRUCTIONS boil down to series of don'ts. Don't date your freshmen. Don't do drugs with your freshmen. Don't give your freshmen alcohol--but don't make them stop drinking either. Don't give your freshmen academic advice because that is the proctor's role...
Others reported that some residents had been reduced to feeding on rats. "Don't be surprised," one Palestinian told an incredulous newsman. "Mothers boil the rats, and children eat them." Pauline Cutting, a British surgeon who had been trapped in Burj el-Barajneh for 15 weeks, told a Washington Post reporter by telephone that the camp's only hospital had run out of pain-killing medicines, was short of antibiotics and anesthetics, and got its electricity from a single, unreliable generator. Food and medical shortages were believed to be almost as extreme at the nearby and similarly besieged Shatila camp...