The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict.
But for Mr. Bush's new administration, the odors may be the only familiar element of a brew of street protests, domestic politics and foreign policy that merged this weekend at the Summit of the Americas.
With insurgents rife in the area, Odom's fight in Hawr Rajab and the Arab Jabour had elements of conventional war, but it needed a witches' brew of force and politics to succeed.
The anglo-French band's aesthetic reached its apogee on album number five, where they thickened the brew with elements of jazz, hip-hop and techno, helped out by post-rock nabob John McEntire.
A brewing time of 10 minutes is a good start.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" features the familiar brew of Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian elements that constitute the religious dimension of martial arts: self-denial, rigorous training and discipline in a "school," the transmission of esoteric knowledge from master to disciple, ascendancy through yielding, the power of focused mind, the spiritual transcendence of physical limits.
Climate change is an increasingly potent element in the deadly brew of disaster risk.
