Word: thickener
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...Hypermagic Mountain” replicates such an experience with unprecedented authenticity. Recorded live on two tracks with real-time mixing, the bass sounds almost tangibly thicken the atmosphere...
...English newspaper called DNA (as in Daily News and Analysis) has launched an advertising blitz, buying dozens of giant billboards around the city, as it prepares to take on the Times of India. At the same time, the Times launched a new tabloid, the Mumbai Mirror. To thicken the melee, the Hindustan Times, a leading New Delhi paper, also entered the fray. Bombay is currently experiencing India's most febrile newspaper battle, but it's not the only one. In Madras, the Deccan Chronicle is aggressively taking on The Hindu, India's most respected English-language paper...
...extensive coagulation, which produces a rubbery texture or curdling. He therefore advises a moderate, gradual heating that will not cause the proteins to contract and squeeze out the liquid they are supposed to retain. In other words, when making hollandaise sauce, use a gentle heat so the sauce will thicken smoothly...
...brief physiology lesson helps explain why a heat wave affects older people disproportionately. When a younger body warms up, the blood vessels expand and blood flows to the skin, dissipating heat. With age, blood vessels tend to thicken and stiffen, making them less able to expel heat. Sweating, another key way of giving off heat, also tends to diminish with age and with getting out of shape. "Basically, the elderly are vulnerable to heat both because they have greater difficulty in regulating their core temperature and because increased prevalence of diseases and medicines impair the ability to dissipate heat," says...
...crime scenes. It is the condition in which we live, and sometimes the all-knowing detective arrives too late to wrap up the loose ends or not at all. "Time never simplifies--it unravels and complicates," De Kretser writes. "Guilty parties show up everywhere. The plot does nothing but thicken...