The secret, picked up from his wife as she cooked vegetable tempura, was to flash-fry the cooked noodles in palm oil.

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Page turning was slow and was accompanied by a distracting flash of black as the microspheres dived down into their oil-filled nodules before forming new text.

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And there, too, Bissell had a flash of inspiration: Adapt the new technique used for drilling for water to the recovery of oil.

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