Word: shroud
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...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 you a completely different flavor from what you'd get if you cut into the fruit," says Miller...
...SKIN IS PIERCED A shroud called a labium opens as the hungry mosquito readies herself to bite, revealing fine cutting instruments called stylets...
...Morris' The Fog of War lets Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara make his nuanced, self-critical apologia for his decisions in a war that killed 56,000 Americans and 60 times as many Vietnamese. It's a must-see, especially for Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. The shroud of international evildoing covers two excellent films set in Afghanistan. Sedigh Barmak's Osama takes place in the early days of Taliban rule: to earn money for her family, a desperate woman disguises her 11-year-old daughter as a boy. It is a reckless ruse, one with humiliating consequences...
Khairurrazi Ismail was always going to die young. He said so himself. When his father passed away, the 18-year-old had wrapped the old man's body in a white cotton shroud, then taken the remaining material to his mother. "Keep this safe for me," he told her. "I'll need it soon." Sure enough, 17 days later, Khairurrazi's corpse was lowered into a muddy trench in a village cemetery in Peusangan, an area near Bireun in northern Aceh that has been ravaged by conflict since the Indonesian military last week launched its massive campaign to crush...
...former employee. Unconvinced, the panel docked OneWorld a competition point. Still, dueling on the high seas would be nothing without an element of skulduggery. So nervous are the teams about others pinching their keel and rudder designs that whenever the boats are lifted out of the water they shroud the hulls in huge curtains. Those curtains were very much in evidence dockside in Auckland last week, as the competing syndicates worked on design modifications to extract extra speed from wind and water. The next round robin begins this week, but there is a lot more action to look forward...