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...rooted out extremely carefully to avoid damage. Scrambling up a vertical ridge, Sui-nong leads us to one of his secret patches?five baby mushrooms nestle under the shadow of a towering tree. He will guard them for two weeks until they reach the right size to fetch a top price...
...have to be rooted out extremely carefully to avoid damage. Scrambling up a vertical ridge, Sui-nong leads us to one of his secret patches: five baby mushrooms nestle under the shadow of a towering tree. He will guard them for two weeks until they get big enough to fetch a top price. Boasting one of the richest ecosystems on the planet, the lush, temperate mountains of northern Yunnan are, for two months of the year, home to maturing matsutake (known in Mandarin as songrong). When Japanese harvests were devastated by an insect-borne disease 15 years ago - a disaster...
...million in revenues in 2003, making it almost double its size of a year earlier. Why did the device catch on so fast? Unlike earlier handhelds, the BlackBerry pushed e-mail right to the device, rather than merely alerting users that they had e-mail the device could fetch. It also let employees send and receive using their corporate addresses, just as if they were in the office. RIM's curved layout of button-like keys has also made thumb operation a breeze. "It's very difficult to get someone to use another device," says Gartner vice president Ken Dulaney...
...Cherrapunji are small and muscular, their cheeks lined with the same parched wrinkles as the wild land of their birth. Their sinewy bodies tell the story of how, six months of the year, they lift empty oilcans on their backs and trek a kilometer to a stream to fetch water. "Still, there isn't enough," says widow Dorjon Nongrun. Once called the "Scotland of the East" by the British, Cherrapunji lost its trees and topsoil after decades of slash-and-burn agriculture. Today, fruit and vegetables are trucked in from hours away. It's a scene repeated across many arid...
...back home, a thoroughly spoiled English cocker spaniel, doesn’t play fetch (I like to think it’s because she’s too smart, and not because I was too lazy to train her) so this keeps me fascinated for about 45 minutes, after which the dog collapses, panting and exhausted, on the grass. I imagine trying to tell Booker, already displeased with my ignorance of fishing, that I had killed...