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For decades, food scientists have been trying to find a way to produce heat-resistant chocolate that still tastes like the real thing. Now researchers believe they are close to achieving this goal. Most brands of chocolate melt at temperatures between 77 °F and 90 °F (25 °C to 33°C). Food scientists at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria have mixed cornstarch with cocoa to produce a heat-resistant chocolate that stays firm up to 122 °F (50 °C).

DEFINITION: (noun) Great personal dishonor or humiliation. SYNONYMS: disgrace, shame. USAGE: The celebrated actor suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison.

Thompson was a journalist known for his flamboyant writing, displayed most notably in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and nonfiction. His style, known as gonzo journalism, has been widely imitated. Thompson's big break came when The Nation magazine asked him to spend a year with the Hells Angels motorcycle gang and write about his experiences. What happened when the gang began to doubt his motives?

Hitler dictated his manifesto, whose title means "my struggle," while serving a prison term for treason. The book, filled with anti-Semitic outpourings, worship of power, disdain for civil morality, and strategy for world domination, became the bible of National Socialism. By the end of WWII, about 10 million copies of the book had been sold or distributed in Germany (every newlywed couple, as well as every front soldier, received a free copy). Where is it illegal to sell copies of the book?

There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

The Irish Potato Famine led to the deaths of more than a million people and provoked a massive exodus from the country in the mid-19th century. The famine was the result of the confluence of several factors, including a disastrous British economic policy, discriminatory landholding laws that tended to subdivide land into sizes too small to sustain families, and the appearance of a malicious potato fungus. What other factors contributed to the severity of the famine?