Word: tok
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korea and Japan staked competing claims to small outcroppings of rock in the Sea of Japan (or East Sea as the Koreans call it) on Tuesday, perpetuating a dispute that has simmered for nearly a century. The rocky little islands (called Tok-do by Koreans and Takeshima by the Japanese) 150 miles from each the coasts of both countries are not significant in themselves, but recognized ownership of the islets -- now inhabited by a lone South Korean fisherman and a small South Korean military force -- hold the key to uncontested exploitation of the rich natural resources...
Sometimes natural disaster has a sunny side. Last summer raging fires consumed 98,000 acres of spruce around Tok in the Alaskan interior. But this year villagers are harvesting a bumper crop of morels, wild mushrooms springing up with abandon on the charred forest floor. The delicacy, which sells in specialty shops for $14 a pound fresh and as much as $200 a pound dried, is in great demand in tony restaurants. When Tok folk learned they could make as much as $20 an hour gathering morels for wholesale buyers from Seattle and Vancouver, "they went crazy," says Aaron Schutt...