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...loudest complaints are coming from farmers. Fuki Moki, 48, whose ancestral patch of land lies near Mount Takago Natural Monkey Park south of Tokyo, says that the macaques wreak havoc in his onions and beans. "They also tear up my mushrooms and throw them around just for the hell of it -without even trying to eat them." Moki's next-door neighbor, Haruji Kenmoto, 65, estimates that engai damage cost him $6,000 last year. "Sometimes they even come indoors and bare their teeth at the children," he says. "It scares the daylights out of them." One macaque climbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Monkey Business | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...they were rereading those grand old boys' books, Baseball Joe and Double Curve Dan. The team is in a losing streak-disaster after disaster. Then, all of a sudden, comes that magical day when everyone has springs in his legs and all the bats are made of hoki-moki wood, and the ball sprouts long ears and a cottontail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Magical Day | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...Farabee Ph.D. '00, instructor in anthropology, will give a lecture on "Two Harvard Expeditions: to the Moki Indian Reservation in 1904, and to Iceland in 1905", in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 8 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Farabee to Lecture at 8 | 4/6/1906 | See Source »

...Farabee Ph.D. '00, instructor in anthropology, will give a lecture on "Two Harvard Expeditions: to the Moki Indian Reservation in 1904, and to Ice-land in 1905", in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, on Friday evening at 8 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Farabee to Lecture on Friday | 4/4/1906 | See Source »

...through northern New Mexico and Arizona and southern Colorado and Utah. This part of the trip will occupy about a month. Among the most interesting places they will visit are the modern pueblo Zuni, the largest in the West, the remnant of the ancient "seven cities of Cibola," and Moki, where they will see the snake dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anthropological Trip to the West. | 6/21/1904 | See Source »

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