Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvest is coming to Harvard Square--sort...
...gear up their environmentally sensitive product lines, and several independent groups have compiled lists of green materials. The Rainforest Alliance, for example, has researched the tropical hardwood trade (estimated at $7 billion a year) and come up with a list of woods, like rubberwood, grown on Malaysian plantations, whose harvest does little damage to the rain forest...
...just a frivolous attempt to tamper with nature, the experiment could conceivably be the first step in providing extra daylight to sun-starved northern cities, extending planting and harvest periods and aiding nighttime rescue missions. Those goals will remain distant, however, until the Russians' space program, cash-starved after the end of the cold war, gets a new infusion of money. They'll need more than mirrors to pull off that trick...
...made of zinc -- metal alloys and Formica are easier to clean -- but the rituals remain. The owner who shakes hands with the regulars. The blue-uniformed laborer downing his half-liter of beer. The war veteran nursing his Calvados-laced coffee. In villages, farmers gather after a day's harvest for a shot of pastis and a dice game. In cities, shopgirls pause for orange juice and a croque monsieur, the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich that is one of the mainstays of cafe fare. "Parisian zincs are the ideal theater of the comedy of man," observes the weekly...
Westerners often consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist Leo Tolstoy once explained, "The Russians harness their horses very slowly, but they ride with great speed." Russian people have little patience for daily chores and fixed schedules. They prefer to get things done in sudden bursts of activity. This style of work came to be known in the Soviet...