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...built three more stations. Buyers from Mercato, Intelligentsia and Costco - even a British microbrewer making coffee beer - began showing up. In March 2006, 5,000 Starbucks outlets in the U.S. began selling Rwandan coffee. In their brochure this year, coffee roasters Green Mountain described Rwanda as "the hottest emerging origin in speciality coffee." Its coffee had "floral top notes of lemon ... sweet, caramelized sugar and wild honey evolving into the heady, well-toned presence of chocolate, dried fruit and dark cherry notes." Who knew? Not Rwandans, who don't drink the stuff. But they did notice the extra change...
...century ago that rugby ceased to be just a sport to New Zealanders and became a vehicle for national pride. In 1905, New Zealand sent to Britain a squad combining players of European origin with the physically imposing indigenous Polynesians. But for a loss to Wales, the tourists trampled everyone in their path. Later, rugby became the one sport in which New Zealand could be confident of beating "big brother" Australia, where the best athletic talent gets scattered between several football codes. It's rugby that allows New Zealanders to believe they matter in the world, says Douglas Booth...
...accomplished translator of American literature, the flow is neatly reversed: his recent rendering of The Great Gatsby sat atop the best-seller list for seven weeks.) Last October in Prague, he was awarded the prestigious Kafka Prize, dedicated to authors whose work "addresses the readers regardless of their origin, nationality and culture." It's difficult to imagine a better recipient than Murakami, who today splits his time between Tokyo and universities in the U.S. "The first [Murakami] story I translated for The New Yorker, they asked me to put in a Japanese reference at the top," says Philip Gabriel...
...seem odd for a hard-nosed industrialist to gravitate toward such esoteric fields--imagine Henry Ford fixating on the origin of the universe--but Kavli, 79, says he got the bug long before he made his fortune in the U.S. aerospace industry. He grew up on a farm in rural Norway, where he remembers being awestruck by the night sky. "There was no city nearby," he says, so when the aurora borealis lit up, "the sky was completely inflamed." Kavli's fascination with the universe deepened in college after World War II when his physics teacher relayed details from...
...world has gotten much smaller. Country of origin is no longer the immutable trait it once was. The suspects arrested so far in the unsuccessful July 21, 2005, transit bombings in London were all from Africa. But the men charged with the devastating July 7, 2005, bombings were U.K. nationals who allegedly began plotting after a trip to Pakistan...