Word: judo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days after I arrived, I would wander out onto the ranch late at night and look up at the stars. So many stars!" The next thing that struck Kaz hit a little harder. Assigned to wrestle his first calf, the newcomer resorted to the only technique he knew -- judo -- and landed in the dirt. "I tried leg sweeps," he says, "only I had forgotten that they have four legs -- two too many...
...Fuji, Judo, Mazda and Ryusho are dead but not forgotten. The four Wagyu bulls, smuggled from their native Japan to the U.S. in 1972, left a valuable legacy for Texas cattleman Don Lively. His stockpile of semen from the bulls and their descendants, which are believed to be the only strain ever to leave Japan, is worth $2 million. The cattle produce tender Kobe beef, a delicacy that sells in Japan for as much as $180 per lb. Lively and his partner have sold $1 million worth of the semen at $250 a vial, in contrast...
...teacher ratio and a high-powered academic program that includes four years of English, three of mathematics and foreign language, and two of science, history and fine arts. "We teach people how to think critically," says Marvin Shagam, a popular instructor who studied at Oxford and is trained in judo. "We don't coach for the SATs." The fees for all this are steep: tuition next year will be $16,000, although 44 of the school's 227 students currently receive financial...