Word: taro
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...Pacific Ring of Fire," vulnerable as always to earthquakes and typhoons, virtually unarmed, without any significant natural resources, dependent on the outside world for oil and food, the Japanese have a hard time seeing themselves as any kind of threat. "In our history of 2,000 years," says Taro Aso, a member of the Japanese parliament, "this is the first time that the Japanese have not had to worry about poverty. We are nouveau riche, a nation of farmers a short tune ago. It is difficult to accept international responsibilities when you have an inferiority complex...
Hiatt explained that Harvard's collaborative effort with Japan stemmed from a meeting he had with Dr. Taro Takemi,. former president of both the Japan and World Medical Association, during a medical conference in Tokyo...
DIED. Salvador Sánchez, 23, World Boxing Council featherweight champion and one of the sport's best fighters; of injuries after his Porsche 928 collided with two trucks; just north of Querétaro, Mexico. A school dropout at 16, Sanchez once explained, "I found out that I liked hitting people, and I didn't like school, so I started boxing." A peppery tactician, he wore opponents down for late-round knockouts. His record: 43-1-1. "I'd like to step down undefeated," he said last month. "I'm only 23 and I have...
...auto-da-fe in greater quantity was decorative art of lesser iconographic content: not gods, but feather robes, bone or whale-tooth ornaments, and the beautifully carved wooden containers, irregular in their polished silkiness, from which the Hawaiians ate their poi, a sort of tropical office paste made of taro roots...
...castaways elect Thorkild chief and play at being survivors, pairing off in various combinations and permutations, cultivating taro and learning how to make stone axes...