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  • s  heat-generating
    the calorific properties of fuels

  • Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television, ice cream and high-calorific Italian cooking.
  • Take him as pure Chinese, with a moniker that sounds to Americans like a calorific pork dish at a Cantonese eatery.
  • There is the calorific opening scene: "He felt like a teenager -- eager to plunge into her, unable to hold back.
News & Articles

  • How A Model Figured Out Childhood Obesity
    Forget for a moment the fervid medievalesque world of miracle diets and deadly foods; Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop, literal and metaphorical; the “trap” of “calorific salads;” how quinoa saved Bill Clinton’s life; and the pea protein concentrate that supposedly powered Novak Djokovic to the top in tennis. If there’s a contender for the most revolutionary intervention in the food-fat-fit stakes this ...
    Aug. 22, 2013 - Forbes
Quotes

  • Linda B Buck in BBC News
    We don't have any explanation for this,said Dr Linda Buck, one of the researchers. "All we can say is that if we give the drug to calorific-restricted animals, it doesn't increase their lifespan any further. That suggests the same...
  • Vijay Mallya in Sify
    Nuclear energy with its several million-fold higher calorific value and negligible greenhouse gas emissions has the potential to make a paradigm change for the better. It goes without saying that there can be no compromise on India's strategic... Anil Kakodkar http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Kakodkar&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG94PaYiitC76msyGWDnboGwi-6wQ domain-B http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.domain-b.com/economy/general/20080725_anil_kakodkar.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE9MUCJQjJS7gjGG5opuGW1a9DAJA Jul 25, 2008 14461 19665 calorific We sent it to a lab to check the calorific value and we proved it," Mallya said.

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