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...sous vide's selling points is that water is a much better conductor of heat than air is. Set a water bath to 145°F (63°C), and food will reach that temperature and stay there. (Contrast that with the need to quickly remove meat from an oven or a grill lest it turn into a hockey puck.) Sealing food in plastic also ensures that no flavor or nutrients will seep out. Depending on what kind of food you're cooking and how tender you want it, you drop your pouch of food into water in the morning...
Fudge, in contrast, has come to prominence through the corporate world. Named by a 2003 issue of Fortune Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in American business, Fudge served as chairman and CEO of marketing giant Young & Rubicam Brands from 2003 to 2006 and has held presidencies at both General Mills and General Foods...
That is in marked contrast to the American experience. Leslie Berlin, project historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University, says the U.S. government and large corporations did provide funding and even facilities to encourage innovation, which played a major role in the industry's success, but that "there has not been an effort to manage, to pick and choose what works," she said in a phone interview from California. "That is certainly not the way Silicon Valley has done it in the past." (See why President Obama wants a cybersecurity czar...
...Chile and Haiti sit atop large, volatile fault lines. In recent decades, Chile has mandated earthquake-proofing for new structures, requiring that materials like rubber and features like counterweights be built into the architectural designs to allow buildings to bend and sway rather than break during temblors. Haiti, by contrast, lets its buildings rise with little if any input from engineers and plenty of bribes to so-called government inspectors. Structures have scant reinforcement and are often set on weak foundations. That's why 13 of 15 federal ministry buildings pancaked in the Jan. 12 earthquake...
Hawaii, which sits squarely in the middle of the potential tsunami's path, also has a sophisticated warning protocol that should get people off the shore in time. By contrast, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, the areas hardest hit by the 2004 tsunami, had virtually no alert system...