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Here’s a quick lesson. The heat of peppers is measured in Scoville Units. Bell peppers have zero, jalapeños have around 5,000, and cayenne peppers have around 40,000. Habañeros, the hottest of all known peppers, and what I chose to eat, have 300,000. Yes, that’s right: Three hundred thousand...
...corporate boss can tell you, headquarters tends to get all the bells and whistles. In kitchen appliances, overkill isn't over. The trend toward commercial stoves and refrigerators, such as those by Viking and Wolf and Sub-Zero, has been reinforced by the shift of such traditional makers as Whirlpool, Maytag, GE and Amana into professional-quality gear and by a changed appearance in the everyday American kitchen. "Everyone is striving for a commercial look," says Tommy Genussa, president of TAG Homes Inc. in New Orleans. "That means stainless-steel appliances. Even in modest homes, the movement is toward...
...rife with them: meathead jocks, insensitive parents, earnest teachers. But Foster makes Trevor searingly real, a bright, eyes-averted loner who so badly wants you to think he doesn't care that you know he does. This is a flawed but unignorable trip into the terrified heart of zero-tolerance America. --By James Poniewozik
DARLING: Anybody under, I would say, around 40 in this country, except for public employees, will not have retirement medical coverage, period. Zero...
...Action Contre la Faim says even in Kabul only 30% of residents have sufficient water, defined as 15 liters a day for washing, cooking, farming and drinking and less than 250 people per water access point. That figure drops to 10% in large swaths of the north and even zero across the south. With dope growers exacerbating the shortage, centuries-old water holes and underground courses have evaporated. Crops downstream of hemp fields have withered and failed. With nothing to eat or drink and plagued by choking dust, entire villages and towns have emptied. "Whole parts of the country...