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...Japanese came, there were so many songrong, we would use baskets to gather them," Sui-nong recalls. "We'd put them in soup or sell them at the market for three yuan [35?] a kilo." Today, top-quality matsutake earn pickers 150 yuan ($18) each, skyrocketing to $500 per kilogram during the meager end-of-season period. "We don't eat them anymore," Sui-nong exclaims. "It's just too expensive...
...Before the Japanese came, there were so many songrong, we would use baskets to gather them," Sui-nong recalls. "We'd put them in soup or sell them at the market for three yuan [35?] a kilo." Today, top-quality matsutake earn pickers $18 each, skyrocketing to $500 per kilogram during the meager end-of-season period. "We don't eat them anymore," Sui-nong exclaims. "It's just too expensive!" Sitting around a blazing fire, Sui-nong examines the day's harvest. "Now everybody wants to pick mushrooms. But they pick them when they're too immature...
...country's grimy industrial trenches, the crunch is on. Kim Jong Gwan, manager of a factory west of Seoul, says he paid 74? per kilogram at the start of the year for the raw materials he uses to make plastic pipes. Today the price is $1.04. To keep costs down, the factory started using more recycled polyethylene pellets, but competitors are doing the same and the cost of recycled material has jumped 20% and will be up 40% by the end of the year. Kim tried to raise prices, but customers threatened to switch suppliers. So he now finds himself...
...Palmer and Macrozonaris also use two sets of cables that offer interesting twists on the training regimen. They work out with resistance cables tethered to 10-kilogram metal plates that help them build strength. And they use "overspeed" cables, which drag them on a pulley system maneuvered by the coach; the idea is to reduce the brain's resistance to speed?think about running downhill. "It will help the athlete break his speed barrier," St.-Hilaire says. "As fast as he's humanly capable of running, we need to find a way to break that barrier." In other words, mind...
...drug sales. A Western antinarcotics official says that in early 2001 al-Qaeda's financial experts joined forces with Khan and other alleged top Afghan drug traffickers to persuade Taliban leader Omar to ban opium cultivation. The ban was self-serving: it drove up opium prices from $30 per kilogram to nearly $650. That meant huge profits for the Taliban and their trafficker friends who were sitting on large stockpiles when prices soared...