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When it comes to keeping trade secrets, Switzerland's chocolate makers can be as tight-lipped as its bankers. But while chocolatier Barry Callebaut refuses to reveal what goes into its latest invention, it's happy to share the result: a chocolate bar that won't melt in your hands or pack on the pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet! Swiss Invent a No-Melt, Low-Cal Chocolate | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...Zurich-based manufacturer, one of the world's leading producers of industrial chocolate and cocoa, which it distributes to global giants such as Nestlé and Cadbury, claims its new product, called Vulcano, is the world's first - and so far only - melt-resistant, low-calorie chocolate. "No more stains or sticky fingers," company spokeswoman Gaby Tschofen tells TIME. "The only place where Vulcano will melt is in the mouth, because of the enzymes present in the saliva." (See pictures of what the world eats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet! Swiss Invent a No-Melt, Low-Cal Chocolate | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...Given its unique no-melt, low-fat combination, Barry Callebaut is keeping the tasty details of Vulcano's ingredients and manufacturing method under wraps. The company will only reveal that the chocolate was invented accidentally, while food engineers were working on another hush-hush project. "When we realized what we had stumbled upon, it was a real 'Eureka!' moment," Tschofen says. "We knew immediately that a chocolate that doesn't melt, is low in calories, but is still 100% natural would have a great market potential, especially in warmer climates or places with no adequate cooling systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet! Swiss Invent a No-Melt, Low-Cal Chocolate | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

Polar Thaw. Climate change is being felt first in the Arctic regions, which explains why Alaska is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the country, and could warm by as much as 13 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 50 years. That will melt sea ice and severely affect already endangered species like the polar bear and the walrus. And warming could ruin the state's valuable fisheries - as sea temperatures warm, the habitat for cold-water fish like salmon and trout could all but disappear in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climate-Change Report: From Bad to Worse | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

...block. Do that about 10 times and it's a mile. Do that 100 times and it's an ultra-marathon. Now run those 100 miles up a mountain, or in the woods at night, or in a desert so hot that the soles of your shoes begin to melt. Sound like fun? Chris McDougall, author of Born to Run, thinks so. What started as a simple quest to explain a running injury took the former war correspondent deep into the world of ultra-running - and into the world of the Tarahumara, an indigenous race of superrunners who live deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of the Lonely Long-Distance Runner | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

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