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...relentlessly confident 1980s, the tatami makers of Kagami sent a delegation to teach Chinese farmers how to raise igusa and weave tatami. "I had a slight feeling of dread," admits 33-year-old farmer Yasushi Furushima, who visited China a few years afterward. "But their quantity wasn't very good." China, of course, caught up fast: today, its exports account for more than two-thirds of the tatami market in Japan. In a last ditch measure to protect its farmers, Japan last year slapped import duties on Chinese tatami, along with leeks and shiitake mushrooms, other endangered cash crops...
...might be expected to act up a bit. The worry, for those who guard the monarchy, is whether Harry is doomed to repeat himself. The temptations--harder drugs, indiscreet women--are infinite, while his future occupation is a yawning void: if not a polo-playing, ribbon-cutting, organic farmer like his dad, what will he become? The younger siblings in royal families "are almost always neglected," says Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage. "Instead of going to pubs on the holidays, he should be meeting heads of state, learning the ropes. He needs training to take...
...sort of thing any good poultry farmer notices right away: a few of the birds in a so-called grow-out building have started snickering--the chicken equivalent of coughing. A respiratory infection, if that's what they have, could spread to the 20,000 other birds in the chicken house in a matter of days. The vet recommends the antibiotic enrofloxacin--the animal version of Cipro. Since it's not practical to treat the birds individually, the farmer pours a 5-gal. jug of the drug into the flock's drinking water. Five days later the birds are doing...
...1960s were a decade of upheaval and renewal, and if Angelo Roncalli--the Italian farmer's son who had become Pope at the age of 76--had anything to say about it, the 900-million-member Roman Catholic Church would be no exception. Pope John convened the ecumenical council called Vatican II. Its purpose: to bring the church into line with modern science, economics, morals and politics and to end the division that had dissipated the Christian message for centuries. In doing so, TIME wrote, he "set in motion ideas and forces that will affect not merely Roman Catholics...
...based whole songs on other people's airs ("That Mesmerizing Mendelsohn Tune," from Mendelsohn's "Spring Song"). He'd drop a snatch of a public-domain song in one of his (the bugle call and "Swanee River" in "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; "There's No Place Like Home" and "Farmer in the Dell" in "He Ain't Got Rhythm...