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Some varieties, like the Winesap and the Maiden Blush, are antique apples with long histories. Others have become popular in recent years, like the pinkish-orange Gala, which was created by horticulturists in New Zealand who blended Golden Delicious with Kidd's Orange Red, an apple that itself is a hybrid of the British Cox's Orange Pippin and a Red Delicious. Japanese breeders crossed a Red Delicious with an heirloom variety called Ralls Janet to create the superlarge, supersweet Fuji, which ranks fifth in sales among varieties grown...
...star of the apple world. Applejournal.com is enthusiastic about its "crisp, dense, juicy, flesh that seems to explode in the mouth, and a wonderful balance of tart and sweet flavors." And these new breeds are already spawning their own offspring, such as the trendy Jazz, another New Zealand creation, which was bred from the fashionable Gala and the tasty Braeburn...
...danger and opportunity drive business decisions, then companies and investors have more and more reason for concern about global warming. The snows of Kilimanjaro are shrinking, as are the polar ice caps, and governments from Canada to New Zealand are joining calls to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions. Consumers and shareholders are steering their money toward companies that demonstrate concern for the environment--or at least appear to do so. And technology is boosting the attractiveness of green products ranging from clean fuel-cell engines to pillows stuffed with a synthetic fiber derived not from oil but from corn. Even...
...when opening a Colt 45. California's Bonny Doon, whose $130 Cabernet opens with a flick of the wrist, threw a funeral for the cork in New York City in October. The cork industry is fighting back with a p.r. campaign, but that won't stop vintners like New Zealand's Kim Crawford, whose bottles are all being switched to screw tops by next year. "There's nothing romantic about a corked bottle of wine," he says. Unfortunately, screw tops render obsolete the second snottiest aspect of wine: storing your bottles in a rack on their sides to keep...
...film the entire trilogy in one gigantic 15-month shoot, and to make of it three separate but seamless movies, each one minutely, imaginatively faithful to Tolkien. That ambition cost him the backing of Miramax Films and other potential sponsors, loath to give $310 million to a New Zealand director with a few oddball critical successes but no mainstream hits. Jackson's confidence has been validated by the box-office take ($860 million worldwide for Fellowship) and the hatching of a blockbuster franchise. So of course he would believe that the audience can follow this complex storyline, without crib sheets...