Word: compacting
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...fashion-forward restaurateurs have forsaken Orchard Road's madding crowds in favor of verdant retreats where cool cuisine comes with a side order of peace and quiet. Maybe it's due to a reluctance to pay city-center rents. Or perhaps it's because of the realization that, in compact Singapore, nowhere is that far from anywhere else. Whatever the reason, if you want to experience some of the Lion City's hippest new restaurants, it's time to head into the woods. The former site of an army barracks on leafy Harding Road is home...
...baking pecan pie, check the site to see how a dish should look at each stage. Learn culinary mechanics as you go. Created as an engineer's personal recipe repository, the site now has a cult following. A highlight: clever diagrams that summarize the steps in a recipe in compact, printable charts...
...Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents. They?re more expensive, but they last up to 13 times as long and each one saves about half a ton of CO2 over its lifetime. If you exchanged the five most frequently used bulbs in your house for compact fluorescents, you would save about 700 lbs. of CO2 (and $90 in energy costs) a year. If every U.S. household swapped three 75-watt regular bulbs that stay on about six hours a day for three 20-watt compact fluorescents, that would save more than 60 trillion lbs. of CO2 per year?equivalent...
...Sony decided to be conservative, pouring its resources into making a product that works well, looks good, and is easy to use. There is no realtime traffic feature, nor is there an MP3 player, or the infrared or Bluetooth connectivity found in other products. It?s just a compact dashboard device with a full map of the US, ready to give you turn by turn instructions...
...Mogwai at the strongest they have ever been. The band has distanced itself from old, self-indulgent habits—no more overlong tracks or repetitive, angular guitar riffs. Instead, they’ve focused on production: on distilling the feel of their earlier albums into something intense and compact...