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Just how you choose which foods you burn in your chromatograph can make a difference too. A small strawberry may taste different from a plump strawberry; a just-ripe one will taste different from one that has gone pulpier and sweeter. For subtler flavorings, technologists may not want to touch the fruit at all, instead simply sampling the volatile gases it gives off. IFF scientists sometimes place a glass shroud around a carefully cultivated plant in a field or greenhouse, draw off the sweet, rich air with a syringe and use that as their flavor template. "It gives...
...current tensions between the United States and the Middle East. Her op-ed article “How America Created a Terrorist Haven,” which appeared last month in the New York Times, expounded upon the viewpoint that current policies have actually created an environment ripe for growing terrorist activity...
...when it wasn’t exactly ripe, it could kill you,” she remembered. But she said “there was never any question that he would know when to pick it correctly...
...challenges created by mass consumption. It now falls to the women and men of your generation to reinvent capitalism in ways that meet the needs of today’s new individuals. Our era of disruptive capitalism will create opportunities for outsiders, mavericks and visionaries. The time is ripe for leadership from a new generation willing to question the worn-out answers of its fathers. Your innovations will be the engines of wealth creation that fuel the global economy of the twenty-first century. If you are successful, it will be a more prosperous century than the last?...
...Marines in Djibouti as a rapid-reaction force. While East Africa is now a known theater of operations, West Africa offers a broad new range of opportunities - as Osama bin Laden pointed out in February, when in a taped message he singled out Nigeria as a country ripe for "liberation" by his followers. Nigeria could be fertile ground for al-Qaeda - half the population is Muslim, antagonistic to its own government over issues such as corruption and enraged by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Islamist challenge there is growing, with provincial governments instituting Taliban-style Sharia...