Word: carrot
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...crispy cocktail and explore the nascent area of flavor perception. "Eating isn't just taste, it's all the senses," he says. "Blindfold knowledgeable wine drinkers, and a majority can't say if they're drinking red or white, so sight matters. Sound--the crunch of a carrot--affects your expectations. What happens if you bite into a banana and hear the sound of a carrot?" he asks. If Blumenthal prepared the banana, it would probably be out of this world...
...paranoid. Among the first of these science-fiction creature features was The Thing, a real scarer in which a huge and extremely unpleasant plant lands in the Arctic, the point man, so to speak, of an invasion by other vainglorious veggies. "You mean we're dealing with a walking carrot?" asks an indignant reporter...
...changes seen by TIME, the new law would allow police to increase fines, seize property, close down businesses, and hold under house arrest anyone who "violates public-security management." Says Liu Junning, a political scientist at the Chinese Cultural Research Institute in Beijing: "If the ?harmonious society' is the carrot, then these laws are the stick...
...embargo on China, whether to sanction Syria for occupying Lebanon and aiding Iraqi insurgents and Hezbollah terrorists, and whether Europe should brand Hezbollah itself a terrorist organization. At the core of many of these issue is a basic bone of contention: whether foreign policy should be conducted with a carrot or a stick. But with the U.S. feeling the need for allies and the E.U. feeling its oats as a global player, European leaders have an even simpler question: Is America ready to treat the E.U. as more than an inconvenient obstacle? "It has to be a balanced relationship," European...
...Good things happen when soft and hard power - carrot and stick - are used in tandem. That's what some 50 foreign-policy experts from both sides of the Atlantic proposed last week. They fashioned a "compact" of compromises on the most recalcitrant issues dividing the U.S. and the E.U., starting with Iraq. As part of a grand barter, the Europeans would step up training, increase spending on reconstruction from $300 million to $1 billion for 2005, and write off half the country's debt; in exchange, the U.S. would give Europe a role in determining Iraq's economic and political...