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...recurring religious unrest in India? Moderate Muslim activist J.S. Bandukwala says that "to a great extent" India has resolved the question of religious identity which had split the country for decades. "But in such a huge population it's so easy for someone to plant a bomb and cause chaos," he says. "I don't think there's anything police can do to stop this sort of thing...
...demand will pick up again with the warmer weather, and it expects Magners' share of the total U.K. beer and cider market to more than double to 4% over the next three to four years. In anticipation, the company recently spent $271 million on doubling capacity at its cider plant in County Tipperary, Ireland...
...talks. The company's rank and file are less than thrilled about their employer's leaving the warm embrace of Germany and falling into the hands of New York financiers. "These private-equity firms are like modern-day robber barons," said a worker at the company's Warren truck plant outside Detroit. "People are feeling betrayed by the management...
...come up with the next big things for the nose or taste bud, fragrance-and-flavor companies send their scientists on "scent treks." On a recent trip to Papua New Guinea, Roman Kaiser, director of smell research for Givaudan, collected more than 50 samples, including a rare hoya plant. "The scent reminds you of dark chocolate, with olfactory notes rarely found in flowers," Kaiser says. He has amassed more than 2,500 natural scents over the years and has reconstituted more than 450. To create authentic flavorings, Givaudan's researchers go on "taste treks" to gourmet restaurants and popular street...
...perfect scent isn't worth anything, though, until it leaves the laboratory. To capture and translate the smell of a plant for consumers, IFF relies on a kind of camera for smell. The bell-shaped glass tool captures a living plant's "headspace": the air surrounding it. Using chromatography and mass spectrometry, scientists analyze the captured molecules, and computer programs help map out the plants' primary components. Most have between 60 and 120, with as many as 100 minor notes. Developers re-create the smell using natural or synthetic oils. To do that, IFF draws on a rotating...