Word: charcoaling
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...popular mountain resort 100 miles northwest of Tokyo. There, for 9,900 yen (roughly $38), he serves what must surely be the world's most expensive cup of coffee. Funakoshi readily concedes that it is not so much the quality of his coffee (a home-blended brew of charcoal-roasted grains freshly ground for each customer) or the decor of his establishment (a narrow, dark wooden hut decorated in rustic Mingei style), as the defiantly exorbitant prices that attract hordes of tourists to his coffee shop...
Lady Li's silk-wrapped body had been placed inside an airtight coffin that was the innermost of six boxes packed in five tons of charcoal, completely surrounded by a layer of white clay and, finally, buried under more than 60 ft. of earth. Furthermore, inside the inner coffin scientists found a reddish, mildly acid fluid containing mercurial compounds that preserved body moisture and helped retard decomposition...
...which cleans the water used in soft drinks. Students scribbled notes as furiously as if they were taking hamburger orders from a busload of Cub Scouts. Slides flashed across a giant screen detailing every movement of the hand required to maintain the filter. One student asked timidly: "How much charcoal do we put in it?" The instructor replied: "The bag is premeasured...
...much of Thnai Toteong still stands. A few concrete-block walls, a post here and there, enormous 150-liter water jars remain curiously intact. Mostly, the little village 20 miles from Phnom-Penh is rubble and charcoal. Seven weeks before, I had driven through Thnai Toteong and stopped off to buy 4 Ibs. of a rich Chinese sausage so exquisitely prepared that travelers carry it back to Hong Kong as gifts for friends. It was a calm, bucolic village untouched by war. Now the sausage shop is gone, a few gun emplacements and foxholes testifying to its brief, final existence...
There are numerous ways to teach art. The typical art school approach stresses techniques, such as the use of oil paint, a charcoal crayon or a lithographic press. Alternatives include allowing students to work in teams with a series of visiting artists on specific projects. Or they can be left completely alone with certain equipment to do as they please...