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...Fermenting fish into a sauce dates back thousands of years: a similar sauce, known as garum or liquamen, was the most common seasoning in the Roman Empire. Southeast Asians still have the taste. Thais produce nam pla, Filipinos patis. In Vietnam, though, nuoc mam is more than just an important ingredient. "I can't cook without it," says Tran Cong, 33, chef of Le Tonkin restaurant in Hanoi. "Vietnamese food would turn into nothing without nuoc...
...life sentence by a military tribunal in 1996. SENTENCED. CHALASAI YUGALA, 29, widow of Thai Prince Thitipan Yugala; to six years in prison for fatally poisoning her 60-year-old husband with insecticide so she could run off with a chestnut peddler; in Bangkok. Better known as Luk Pla, she told police she only meant to render her husband unconscious so she could flee the palace...
That helps explain why the news was leaked by hardline factions within the PLA who want to soil Sino-U.S. relations and embarrass Jiang. The embarrassment has been as muted as the press coverage, but you can be sure the government learned one thing: always buy Chinese...
Paper or wheat? That's the checkout quandary you may soon face now that the first plastic made from such environmentally friendly crops as corn, wheat and soy is almost ready to go into mass production. Polyactide - or PLA in plastic-speak - is the result of a heated race among chemical and bioengineering companies throughout the past decade to reap the environmental cachet that would come with the first "all natural" plastic. This week, Dow Cargill Polymer, a combined effort of Dow Chemical and Cargill Inc., prompted sighs in the Monsanto and DuPont boardrooms when it announced that it would...
...moment too soon. Petroleum-based plastics, the magically versatile material of the 20th century, have two major problems: Their manufacturing cost is held hostage by crude oil prices, and, because they're not easy to break down chemically, they can linger in landfills for decades. PLA solves both problems, and is as durable as petroleum-based plastics. The complex process that creates the new plastic involves feeding the crops to microbes, similar to the way yogurt is curdled. The result has been compared to the polyester frequently used in plastic soda bottles, carpeting and wrinkle-free clothes, and clothing manufacturers...