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Much of the credit belongs to Kyoji Doi, the toji, or sake brewmaster, a proud member of a dwindling breed. "In the olden days, the eldest sons of farmers made sake after the harvest," explains Doi, 63. Straight out of high school, he followed his father into his vocation. "But my son," he says with a rueful, gap-toothed smile, "he's a salaryman...
...that thought may seem prosaic, but it was a message few considered in Doc?s day, no more dramatically demonstrated than by the sudden collapse of Monterey?s sardine fishery in the 1940s. Doc had warned against over fishing, but no one listened. And suddenly Monterey?s great silver harvest was gone...
...well-trodden path started with a gentle climb past golden rice paddies ready for harvest, then ducked into the cool embrace of massive rhododendron groves. My first days were long, about five hours of hiking broken up by a leisurely lunch. By the fourth day I was hiking only three hours to better adjust to the 3,000-m-plus altitude. I spent my afternoons lounging in the sun with a pot of tea and a book or visiting nearby hot springs with a cold beer. Hard-core? Hardly. I was getting more rest on my two-and-a-half...
...Hamed was spared because of his age, and his sons escaped the punishment because they were all away, in Basra. Hamed says it was five months before the young men of Khardeh returned. In the meantime, the womenfolk and old men had to tend the crops and collect the harvest. "It was a terrible, terrible time," Hamed says, squatting on a carpet in his furnitureless living room. "It's because we know what war is like that we don't want it to happen again...
...those native to the Caspian appear doomed. Environmental groups have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to put beluga on the endangered-species list?a move that would cut off supply to the world's largest market of consumers. (Americans swallow up to 80% of the annual beluga harvest.) The agency held public hearings last month to consider the matter; a final recommendation is expected this summer...