Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chan regrets the situation: "The video rights are handled by Golden Harvest, the distribution company I work for. They don't really concentrate on videos in America." But even in this video murk, Chan's personality shines through. He has a star quality that doesn't get lost in translation...
Building up the population of one of the world's most endangered species would seem to be a proper and magnanimous gesture, but conservationists are outraged by what they suspect is Somphong's long-term goal: to harvest and sell tiger penises and other body parts that bring high prices in Asia. Scientific evidence to the contrary, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine insist that crushed tiger bones and tiger genitalia can cure everything from arthritis to impotence. By most estimates, only about 5,000 tigers are left in the wild, largely because of the price they bring poachers. Despite...
...Sunday, the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (BSA) will sponsor its first celebration of Kwanzaa, the African-American celebration of ethnic unity which coincides with the harvest in many African countries...
...ultimate irony of this great harvest drama lies beyond the shores of the U.S. Lester Brown, head of the Worldwatch Institute, suggested earlier this year that unless there were dramatic changes in population growth and food supply, the world soon would not be able to feed itself. "Food security will replace military security as the principal concern of many nations over the next 40 years," he said. The American harvest miracle -- and even last week's announcement by the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines that a new, higher-yielding strain of rice would boost world production...
...year after the floods, U.S. farmers produce a record harvest...