Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lunch at Beach and Tyler St. in Chinatown. It's better than Dino's pizza place, a couple of blocks away on Washington St., because it stays open all night too but has edible food. Kim Toy has a good Won Ton soup, but fails to make good boiled rice. The clientele is shady at late hours, mostly killers and high school sharks, but the area is well protected...
More than in most countries, urbanization has overwhelmed Japan. Only 20 years ago, 60% of the population was tied to the farm, and Japan still had to import rice; today, as a result of agricultural advances, only 18% of the Japanese people are needed to feed the country and produce a surplus. The dispossessed farmers cram the cities, and the cities have been woefully shortchanged. The "Tokaido Corridor," a slender, 366-mile coastal belt running along the Pacific from Tokyo to Kobe, was long celebrated for its beauty in misty wood-block prints and delicate, 17-syllable haiku. Today, with...
...Lyons wakes up and hits the floor running. "He has an internal clock," says Wife Sylvia, "and the alarm is always on. We should have a fire pole in our room." TIME Correspondent Jill Krementz jogged along with Lyons on his recent rounds. After a light breakfast (juice, coffee, Rice Krispies), the legman is off to Sardi's, the first stop on a whirlwind tour of mid-Manhattan's choicest restaurants. Already he sounds like Alice's white rabbit: "I'm late, I'm late...
...Early Rice. Other scientists suggest that agriculture developed more or less simultaneously in widely separated regions of the world. Carbon-14 dating techniques, they note, can easily be off by as much as 1,000 years. But Solheim's claim is at least indirectly supported by other evidence of Southeast Asia's prehistoric culture. At the historic Thai village of Non Nok Tha, another University of Hawaii archaeological team has discovered a 3,500-year-old metal ax with a socket for a handle. The unusual implement may show that Thailand's ancient people were able...
...team also discovered old pottery fragments imprinted with rice husk markings. The shards indicate that the inhabitants of the region were cultivating rice even earlier than 3500 B.C.-long before it was grown in either India or China. "The Chinese," says Solheim. "have felt superior to the peoples beyond their borders. Now they will have to accept the fact that many of the peoples of Southeast Asia had a higher culture from which the Chinese borrowed for the foundations of their later civilization...