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...advertisers aren't the only ones who may start putting sound to greater use. Retailers are also catching on. The 0101 department store in Japan, for example, has been designed as a series of soundscapes, playing different sound effects such as children at play, birdsongs and lapping water in the sportswear, fragrance and formal-wear sections. Lindstrom is consulting with clients about employing a similar strategy in European supermarkets, piping the sound of percolating coffee or fizzing soda into the beverage department or that of a baby cooing into the baby-food aisle. (See the top 10 TV commercials...
...recently spent an entire week eating only food that I had shrink-wrapped and cooked in tepid water for an inordinate amount of time: eight hours for a chicken breast, 24 hours for a steak, 36 hours for short ribs that came out rare. Although this culinary method may sound fit for a survival camp, a growing number of foodies are embracing sous vide, French for "under vacuum," as the ideal way to slowly cook meat in its own juices. (Watch TIME's video "Sous Vide: Your Food Takes a Bath...
...rice cooker. The SousVide Supreme ($450), which came out in November, is a self-contained unit about the size of a microwave. I decided to test-drive the top of the line: an immersion circulator from PolyScience ($1,129), which, unlike its less expensive brethren, ensures precisely heated water throughout the process...
Because the quake occurred offshore, however, the destruction likely won't be limited to Chile. As the underwater plates shake, they push the water above them up, creating the beginning of a wave, not unlike dropping a stone in a bathtub. The wave then travels away from the epicenter of the quake. In the case of the Chile temblor, the waves are moving in a northwest direction across the Pacific, putting nearly every shoreline along the ocean at some risk...
...open water, a tsunami makes barely a ripple, but as the waves approach a shoreline, they gather strength and height, finally spilling over land...