Are You a Carboholic? Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough

By GARY TAUBES

Eating a little of a tasty dessert doesn’t satisfy me — it creates a fierce craving to eat it all, and then some.

Their time on earth was glorious, with delicate string melodies contrasting with powerful percussion rhythms like noble men and women at a new dynastic walk. https://ept.ms/3XWwkVF

“There is a palpable change taking place here,” Mr. Lieberthal added, “with a sense of greater confidence that China has now become an important place and needs to act that way.”
But economic importance does not automatically translate into geopolitical heft. In China’s case, most of the other components of true global power — moral sway, military clout, cultural influence, to name a few — are in the assembly stage, or missing altogether.

Mr. Thomson said that the News Corporation, which is controlled by Rupert Murdoch and which bought the newspaper’s parent company, Dow Jones, last year for close to $5 billion, would invest $6 million a year to add four pages for international news.

Adding heft to a paper at a time when cutbacks are the industry norm — The Journal’s advertising revenue, like other newspapers, declined in the first quarter — is a nice start for Mr. Thomson to ease the anxieties of Journal staff members whipsawed by change. But the vagueness of his role — publishers do not typically attend news meetings — has everyone wondering what else he has in store.

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When the ferry passes the headland, eleven minarets become visible, and you can see clearly the camel chimneys of the kitchens of the Sultan’s palace. This palace of Topkapi housed luxury and indulgence on such a scale that they percolated into the very dreams of the West; but in reality, as you can see today, it was no more than a labyrinthine monument to dynastic paranoia.

Far from oozing self-confidence, China is witnessing a fierce debate both about its economic system and the sort of great power it wants to be—and it is a debate the government does not like.

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Early Coffeemaker

How do you take yours? The coffee percolator was patented on this date in 1865. The documented history of coffee begins circa 1000 in Arabia, where roasted beans were first brewed. In 1615, a Venetian merchant brought coffee beans to Europe and a year later a Dutch trader brought a coffee plant. In 1696, the Dutch founded the first European-owned coffee estate, on colonial Java. About 30 years later, Brazilian Lt. Col. Francisco de Melo Palheta spirited some seedlings away from French Guiana and within several decades, Brazil was one of the world's greatest coffee empires.

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"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Sectarian Fears Percolate in an Iraqi Town
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Sunni residents in Baquba had little trust for the Shiite-dominated army being reintroduced into the city.It was not until the late 16th century that a concept of a Confucian mode of thought began to percolate into the West. 但直到16世紀末，儒家的思想模式這概念才開始浸透到西方。

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It may lack global political heft, but the Commonwealth is a useful network

Under its punchy boss, the post-imperial club is battling to make a global mark

percolate

(pûr'kə-lāt') pronunciation

v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates. v.tr.

To cause (liquid, for example) to pass through a porous substance or small holes; filter.
To pass or ooze through: Water percolated the sand.
To make (coffee) in a percolator.

v.intr.

To drain or seep through a porous material or filter.
Informal. To become lively or active.
Informal. To spread slowly or gradually.

n. (-lĭt, -lāt')
A liquid that has been percolated.

[Latin percōlāre, percōlāt- : per-, per- + cōlāre, to filter (from cōlum, sieve).]

percolate
verb
1 [I] If a liquid percolates, it moves slowly through a substance with very small holes in it:
Sea water percolates down through the rocks.

2 [I] to spread slowly:
The news has begun to percolate through the staff.

3 [I or T] to make coffe using a machine in which hot water passes through crushed coffee beans into a container below

v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates. v.tr.

To cause (liquid, for example) to pass through a porous substance or small holes; filter.
To pass or ooze through: Water percolated the sand.
To make (coffee) in a percolator.

v.intr.

To drain or seep through a porous material or filter.
Informal. To become lively or active.
Informal. To spread slowly or gradually.

n. (-lĭt, -lāt')
A liquid that has been percolated.

[Latin percōlāre, percōlāt- : per-, per- + cōlāre, to filter (from cōlum, sieve).]

percolator
noun [C]
a device for making coffee in which hot water passes through crushed coffee beans into a container below

ooze
verb [I + adverb or preposition; T]
to flow slowly out of something through a small opening, or to slowly produce a thick sticky liquid:
Blood was still oozing out of the wound.
She removed the bandage to reveal a red swollen wound oozing pus.
The waiter brought her a massive pizza oozing (with) cheese.
FIGURATIVE He oozes (= has a lot of) charm/confidence.

ooze
noun [U]
a thick brown liquid made of earth and water, found at the bottom of a river or lake:
Many millions of years ago, our ancestors climbed out of the primeval ooze onto dry land.

some

sʌm,s(ə)m/

determiner

1.

an unspecified amount or number of.

"I made some money running errands"

2.

used to refer to someone or something that is unknown or unspecified.

"she married some newspaper magnate twice her age"

pronoun

1.

an unspecified number or amount of people or things.

"here are some of our suggestions"

2.

(pronounced stressing ‘some’) at least a small amount or number of people or things.

"surely some have noticed"

adverb

NORTH AMERICANinformal

1.

to some extent; quite a lot.

"he needs feeding up some"

sharp (SUDDEN)
adjective
happening suddenly, quickly and strongly:
a sharp drop in temperature
a sharp decline in the standard of living
a sharp rise/increase in the number of cases of this illness
a sharp bend in the road
to suffer a sharp blow to the head
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sharp
adverb
After the church, turn sharp left/right.

sharpish
adverb UK INFORMAL
quickly:
We'd better get out of here pretty sharpish.

sharply
adverb
Inflation has risen/fallen sharply.
His health improved/deteriorated sharply this week.
The road bends sharply to the left.