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...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...
...long after his father helped negotiate his release, Dale Ching joined the U.S. Army and fought Japanese forces during WWII. He went on to become an electronics technician, but after retiring, he began volunteering as a docent at Angel Island in hopes of drawing more attention to that moment in history. "We've been fighting, but nobody would listen," he says. "Finally someone has said sorry...
...historic moment," says Alejandro de Valle, a professor of international law at the University of Cádiz in Spain. "And it meets a deep need." (See pictures of a Galician village...
...think for a moment that McNamara started the Vietnam War. That was mainly the result of how U.S. leaders in the aftermath of World War II perceived the communist threat and thought about foreign policy. By the time McNamara got to Washington in 1961, the Cold War was blossoming, and along with it, the domino theory. That theory, rooted in the run-up to World War II, held that it would be dangerous folly to let an aggressor snatch away little countries, be emboldened and then make world war. The aggressor had to be stopped wherever he was making...
...sure, no question about it,” Leblanc said. “It was the best moment of my hockey life...