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And even as factories closed, L.A. was able to take advantage of another offshoot of globalization.

It plays a starring role in béarnaise sauce, one of the many offshoots of the long-cherished mother sauces in French cuisine.

Most of those killed in the recent attacks, which occurred over a period of days earlier this month, were Alawites - an offshoot of Shia Islam, and Assad's minority sect.

Frankly, it was just a new undertaking in my life — the music is an offshoot of that.

Syria's north-west Mediterranean coast is the heartland of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam to which many of the former Assad regime's political and military elite belonged.