Word: concoction
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...ever thought Chanel No. 5 has too much ilang-ilang or Annick Goutal's Ce Soir Ou Jamais has too little Turkish rose, then it may well be time to concoct your own fragrance. And the best location for that is the world's scent capital?the French city of Grasse, just north of Cannes...
...Yellow River. Kaneshiro and Lau play police officers for a corrupt imperial government and are charged with eliminating a mysterious rebel group called the House of Flying Daggers, which derives its name from its members' knuckleball-like throwing knives, which dance and weave toward their targets. The pair concoct an elaborate plan to use a blind bar girl (Zhang Ziyi) as rebel bait, and Zhang, a trained ballerina, shows off her skills in a dance sequence that turns into an elegant, then vicious, duel. It is the visual highlight of a gorgeous film...
...trim do not need to be identified. He cites a pink lamb's-wool sweater sold in Copenhagen that's decorated with pompons of dog fur: "No one in Europe would buy these products if they knew." In cases where the trim is identified, Stevenson says, importers concoct all sorts of exotic, meaningless names, like gae-wolf, sobaki and goupee. Even if the E.U. cracked down on imports, verification is cumbersome and expensive. The curing process used on many skins destroys DNA, so it would be difficult to prove that pelts came from cats or dogs. And China is showing...
...also loading us up with chemicals and fats and contributing to the obesity epidemic in the U.S. and abroad. We are exporting these artificial foods and thus fueling the rise of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and childhood obesity. The food industry focuses on increasing profits. Maybe food scientists can concoct something to protect us from the escalating health-care costs brought on by the commercial food trade. ANDREA C. BRESNICK Sharon, Mass...
...Crimson’s readers could certainly concoct other examples that employ the organizing techniques and fun of flash mobs to strengthen social capital or promote political and cultural change. Flash mobs have an “all dressed up with no place to go” quality; let’s give them a destination...