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Would Americans prefer ketchup to be thicker? If the majority say yes, the FDA's ketchup standards will be adjusted to mandate a thicker consistency for the condiment. Cries of thanks will no doubt be heard across the nation...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Ketchup Blues | 4/16/1991 | See Source »

...cracked pane is 133 inches long and is thicker than ordinary window glass, Gordon said, adding that a replacement will have to be custom-made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS IN BRIEF | 11/1/1990 | See Source »

...crises keep coming, thicker and faster than the first snowflakes of the season that fell on Moscow last week. The bread and cigarette crises of August have not so much disappeared as given way to discussions about fresh shortages of eggs and butter; well-founded fears of forthcoming scarcity in supplies of potatoes, vegetables and fuel; anxious predictions of riots in coming months. The nation's leaders openly allude to a possible breakdown of authority and descent into anarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union No Shortage of Rumors | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...months, the men taking HGH felt healthier and more energetic, almost like the old characters who were rejuvenated in the movie Cocoon. The group's growth hormone levels rose to those of men under 40. Fatty tissue decreased nearly 15%, lean body mass increased 9%, skin grew 7% thicker and some vertebrae became slightly denser. In several respects, the researchers say, HGH therapy reversed the consequences of a decade or two of aging. Men in the control group showed no significant changes in their physiques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Getting A Shot Of Youth | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...noxious cloud hanging over Imhausen-Chemie keeps growing thicker. Under fire for its alleged complicity in the building of a poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: More Bad Chemistry | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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