Word: pining
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...China's Yunnan province searching for mushrooms of a very special sort: the matsutake, a fungus prized above all others by Japanese gourmets. Matsutakecan't be cultivated - attempts to do so have eluded the world's experts. And they're anything but easy to find, growing under beds of pine needles or on the roots of ancient fir trees. They have to be rooted out extremely carefully to avoid damage. Scrambling up a vertical ridge, Sui-nong leads us to one of his secret patches: five baby mushrooms nestle under the shadow of a towering tree. He will guard them...
...University won’t even believe you; and students from Beirut University might angrily demand that you try a couple classes in his shoes. Not to mention that any non-college educated person in any foreign country will immediately affirm their conception of Americans as spoiled if you pine away about your tough life on the banks of the Charles. Or at least that was my perception when I talked to some of these people this summer...
...dark and hearing winds that screamed like jet engines. They emerged to a nightmare of destruction - yachts hurled into trees, houses and bridges swept from their pilings, and motels and condominiums smashed to smithereens. In the Florida Panhandle tornadoes, spun off from Ivan's leading edge, uprooted pine trees and ripped the roofs off buildings. And across the southern U.S., in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina, Ivan's heavy rains turned creeks into rivers and rivers into inland seas. At least 40 people are thought to have died during Ivan's terrifying assault on the U.S., and more than...
...havoc caused by small men with greatly misguided schemes is to pine for liberal giants like Willy Brandt, the focal figure of Michael Frayn?s play ?Democracy,? which has been running in London for nearly a year. Brandt, who left Germany for Norway in 1933 and helped resistance leaders in the fruitless attempts to overthrow Hitler, gave a human face to a national long tainted by Nazism. Calling for ?a fatherland of love and justice? and pursuing the doctrine of detente with the Soviet bloc - Ostpolitik - Brandt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Three years later he was brought...
...accuracy with their storm-landing forecasts. But on Friday, after a million people were ordered to evacuate the Tampa area, Charley slammed into the shoreline 100 miles to the south instead. The 145-m.p.h. winds twisted aluminum siding as if it were gift ribbon and snapped 100-year-old pine trees. Then, as people raced inland, the storm followed, reminding everyone that on this extremity of land, there is little room to escape. "What we've managed to do is to evacuate a lot of people into the path of a hurricane," said a Tampa official. Governor Jeb Bush conceded...