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...chocolate and cocoa, which it distributes to global giants such as Nestlé and Cadbury, claims its new product, called Vulcano, is the world's first - and so far only - melt-resistant, low-calorie chocolate. "No more stains or sticky fingers," company spokeswoman Gaby Tschofen tells TIME. "The only place where Vulcano will melt is in the mouth, because of the enzymes present in the saliva." (See pictures of what the world eats...
...reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act [that separated investment and commercial banking]. These are big reforms, but they'd give you a more stable landscape to make even more changes. Part of what I learned is that the very kinds of daily practices that created the boom in the first place - wanting to book as many deals as possible for short-term bonuses, a workplace structured so that they're knowingly not there for very long - paved the way for the bust. I talked to bankers who said, "When we do deals like this, we're probably...
...home? Doesn’t retrospection add ambiguity, even to conversations that didn’t have a language barrier? Aren’t we in the habit of corralling observations into metaphors, even when we aren’t trying to discover the rhythm of a foreign place? Don’t we simplify un-mined personalities of even the people we know until they’re stock characters for our unwritten autobiographies...
What were some of the best moments? The Cocos Keeling islands, an Australian protectorate in the Indian Ocean, were a pretty amazing time. It was just the most beautiful place and pretty much uninhabited - there were 500 Muslims on one island and about 100 surfers on another...
...European Commission, at Madrid's behest, designated some of those waters as a marine conservation area under Spain's jurisdiction. Gibraltar appealed the decision, decrying it as a breach of international law and warning that it threatened to upset plans for the upcoming Tripartite meeting (dialogues previously took place in Granada and London). "This is an additional banana skin thrown by Spain at the feet of the [negotiations] process," declared Gibraltar Chief Minister Peter Caruana. (Read "We Pledge Allegiance," a 2002 story on Gibraltar...