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...Linda Perry of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Which of course raises the question: Just how spicy did they like it? In Scoville Heat Units-a measure of capsaicinoids, the chemicals that give food "heat"-the picante peppers of prehistoric Peru pale in comparison with today's hottest chilies...
...SHUs New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute last week certified the Bhut Jolokia, or "ghost chili," from India as the hottest ever tested. By comparison, most pepper sprays come in at 2 to 5 million SHUs...
...SHUs At more than 60 times the spiciness of a jalape?o, the Red Savina habanero, developed in California, is twice as hot as other habaneros and was until recently considered the world's hottest chili...
...four decades, 80 or so successful. Bitter civil wars erupted, some of them tribal struggles for natural resources, some of them fueled by foreign powers. In the 1967-70 civil war in Nigeria, Ghana's regional neighbor, a million died. By the 1970s, Africa had become one of the hottest fronts in the cold war. Both superpowers propped up dictators and forced their economic policies onto their struggling clients, both stoked corruption and graft, and both fueled internal struggles such as the hellish wars that followed independence in Portugal's colonies of Mozambique and Angola. "We had lots of fears...
That lament is sung across Europe. Far from enjoying the economic recovery, millions of working people are feeling squeezed, and their disgruntlement is becoming the hottest social and political issue of the day. Asked to name their biggest worries in a Novatris/Harris poll last month, French, Germans and Italians all put "increased cost of living" at the top of the list, ahead of unemployment, security, pensions or immigration. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin recently called "purchasing power" the nation's top priority, and the issue has become the central theme of the presidential election campaign, with candidates on both...