Word: urea
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...intelligence officials, Shehadah recently smuggled about half a dozen highly skilled bombmakers from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank to replace men arrested or killed in recent Israeli sweeps there. These "masters," as Israeli intelligence calls them, brought with them new, improved explosives formulas, which use levels of urea higher than in previous recipes to create a bomb that's more stable and more powerful. Shehadah also organized the manufacture of mortars and of Hamas' Qassem II rockets and exported the know-how from Gaza to the West Bank, according to Israeli security officials. But he may prove...
...innovation lies closer to home. Canadian pharmaceutical researcher Ben Kamins wasn't too interested in antiaging products until 10 years ago, when his wife, then 53, started worrying about the effects of hot flashes on her thinning skin. In response, he developed the Menopause Skin Cream, which uses urea--a common humectant--as a cooling agent. His solution to the vitamin E problem: encapsulate alpha-tocopherol in tiny little sacks of sugar molecules that are activated by body heat...