Word: plasticities
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...dirtiest water can be cleaned. Seawater in Singapore, for instance, is first dosed with acids to adjust alkaline levels and then cleaned of contaminants like oil and grease. The water passes through a sieve of sand that removes silt. Then it is shot through a stringy honeycomb of plastic membranes at high pressure, which "polishes" the water, Ong says. In the case of desalination in Singapore, Ong adds, the water becomes so clean that minerals have to be restored for it to be consumed. In 2008, Hyflux reported net profits of $40 million, a 79% increase over the previous year...
...Singapore's water babies harbor such commercial promise. To highlight its prowess at converting wastewater into drinking water, the government created a drink called NEWater and packaged it in colorful plastic bottles. Although it's copiously drunk by Singaporean government ministers, often at media-saturated events like the country's National Day celebrations, brands like Evian and Perrier have little to fear. Singapore's officials are more interested in making a point than a dollar, the point being that water is a valuable, renewable resource...
...Hare asks Henry. Hare then steps back until he's standing between a pair of inverted plastic cups on the floor. He quickly puts the hand holding the biscuit under one cup, then the other, and holds up both empty hands. Hare could run a very profitable shell game. No one in the room--neither dog nor human--can tell which cup hides the biscuit. (See a video on how dogs think like...
...China, though, Coke has remained focused on sales volume, selling soda in small bottles for as little as 15¢. It just introduced a 355-ml bottle--a little more than half the size of its more traditional plastic bottle--for 35¢ in places like the southern coastal provinces, which have been hard hit by the slowdown in exports. Coke's China president, Doug Jackson, says he'll take what he can get in a tough economy. "If you have a little less kuai in your pocket," he says, using the colloquial word for Chinese currency, "folks look for where...
...past, this is much more event-driven.THC: What kind of challenges did you have in depicting his story accurately and compellingly?TK: A good part of this story is that the only source I have for it is Deo’s memory, and memory is of course a very plastic thing. I’m absolutely sure that the story is, in its entrails, basically true. I mean, I don’t remember things very well from the day before yesterday, and these are Deo’s 12-year-old memories. This was one of the reasons...