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...independent Grove/Atlantic. "It has gone from being entrepreneurial, impresarial and academic to being run like a media business. I know I will lose money on half my front list, but those are my favorite books to publish." Significantly, Grove/Atlantic never had a No. 1 best seller until Cold Mountain, last year's breakout hit by first-time author Charles Frazier...
...province of Jiang-Xi acouple years ago over reading period, doing somefield work. Isolated, beautiful hillsidecountryside area and they didn't have a great dealof variety but what they had was so out of sight,it was just impossible to rival. They had--theonly time I ever had this--mountain catfish. Theyalso had the best, most fabulous bean curd I’veever had in my life, because the water they had inthis area was crystal clear beyond belief. The keyto good bean curd is having fresh wonderful water.I couldn't believe it. They had a hot pot withmountain catfish...
Nothing symbolizes this nation's true grit better than the mountain retreat of Nakfa. There the near defeated rebel troops hewed out miles of rock trenches with bayonets and survived for 10 years beneath the shelling of the Ethiopian army. It still takes 10 hours in a four-wheel to drive the 137 miles from the capital over rugged mountain tracks. But Nakfa is a place of veneration akin to Valley Forge. "It reminds us forever of our resistance," says Zacharias, a teacher at the new technical school. The national emblem is the camel that carried supplies to Nakfa...
...betrayed by every ally; their cause was hopeless. They won by force of character, a unity and determination so steely not all the modern armaments, superpower support or economic superiority of Ethiopia could withstand it. The spirit that saw the Eritreans through 10 years in the trenches of their mountain redoubt at Nakfa has built them a nation from scratch, since independence was finally consummated...
...millions of dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow of a mountain of toxic sludge as high as the lake is deep...