Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little chocolate as they wage a waiting war along the Saudi-Iraqi border. Last week Pennsylvania's Hershey Foods launched an all-out offensive against the candy-killing climate of the Middle East. Its secret weapon: 144,000 Desert Bars. Designed to meet the Army's demand for "heat-resistant" milk chocolate, the Desert Bar approximates the flavor of its home-front cousins, while standing up to temperatures of well over 100 degrees without turning into chocolate syrup. Hershey, which produced its first heat-resistant chocolates for the Army in 1937, refuses to divulge the desert-defying processes behind...
...tries hard not to do, Ali Basa can remember in detail exactly when his luck ran out. It was shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at a point in the Kuwaiti desert about 14 miles north of the Saudi border. On eight previous smuggling runs, the midday heat had protected Basa's overland enterprise. The Iraqis, everyone knew, were creatures of habit who invariably shunned the harsh...
...lives, Jack and Bobby need to come to a world-well-lost moment, a rocking, rolling acknowledgment of suppressed desires. That does not happen. We get shadows and tenderness instead. Then the script sends her up- country to join the rebels and sends Jake after her. Away from the heat and claustrophobia of Havana, the picture loses plausibility and energy...
...minister for minerals and energy in New South Wales, Australia, offered tittering legislators a plan for a low-cost energy source: confiscated marijuana. Burning pot to produce electricity made sense, he claimed, because the crop gives off eight times as much heat as coal...
...about a Ms. Solomon? Jennifer Lawson, the former film professor and civil rights worker who was named to the job last November, has thus far been getting more huzzahs than heat. She basked in the glory of PBS's huge success of September, The Civil War. (The program was set in motion long before she arrived, but Lawson approved its unusual weeklong scheduling.) She has won praise for boosting PBS's profile with such ploys as running ads on the commercial networks. Most of all, she has tamed the ornery PBS bureaucracy with a mix of calm decisiveness and careful...