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...drink water from a festering pool in an abandoned basement—or even why it would travel to earth in the first place. Nor is it made entirely clear why, after the aliens spent the first half of the movie vaporizing people into ashes, they suddenly decide to harvest humans as fertilizer for crops that resemble dried viscera...
...chain manager of Lucky Pierrot, a group of Japanese restaurants that has started selling whale burgers. Japan's attempts to overturn the long-standing ban on commercial whale hunting met with failure at last week's meeting of the International Whaling Commission, but Japanese whalers will continue to harvest whales in the name of scientific research...
...world's largest order of French fries. But no, it was merely one more odd happening in the life of Baseball Legend Yogi Berra, who last week wound up with a ton of taters on the lawn of his Montclair, N.J., home. The seed for Berra's bumper harvest was planted last summer at a celebrity golf tournament near Grand Forks, N. Dak. Berra reportedly asked what folks around those parts did for a living and was told that they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow enough here to fill up my driveway...
...transformation belongs to Premier Zhao Ziyang, a Deng protégé who served as the party's provincial secretary from 1975 to 1980. Zhao helped introduce the contract-responsibility system, the bedrock of rural reforms, in 1977. Families and individuals were assigned plots in return for promising to meet harvest quotas. Surplus crops could be sold to the state at higher prices. Eventually, peasants were also allowed to sell the extra grain at market. The experiment worked so well that it was adopted as a national policy in late...
Brazilian production has already been slashed from last year's harvest of 2 million tons to an estimated 1 million tons or less. Said Brazilian Coffee Farmer Paulo Ribeiro last week: "The trees are just dry sticks. They don't have any leaves. It will take three years for the trees to return to 60% of their previous production...