Word: soybeans
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...liquid or powdered form, whether poured over a plate of chow or curdled in a custard, soybeans have provided the Chinese with their main source of protein for 3,000 years. Some people in the Far East even call the soybean "the cow of China." Fittingly, a Chinese businessman in Hong Kong, K. S. Lo, has hit on the idea of milking a drink out of the bean and building a prosperous business around it. The product, called Vitasoy, has become the new soft-drink craze in the British crown colony...
...sugar with a new refining technique, and Garrett Morgan introduced a number of life-saving devices, not least of which was the traffic signal. George Washington Carver, of course, transformed Southern agriculture by discovering scores of new uses-from peanut butter to shaving cream-for the lowly peanut, soybean and sweet potato. In medicine, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart operation in 1893, while Dr. Charles Drew pioneered in new techniques to store blood plasma. Drew, ironically, bled to death after he was injured in a car crash-and was turned away by an all-white hospital...
...acre valley surrounded by mountains of the Pacific Coastal Range, 40 long-robed youths were introduced last week to the mysteries of Zen. Under the direction of a roshi (teacher), they spent long hours in meditation on black zazen cushions, chanted incantations through meals of miso (soybean soup), carrots, onions, bokchoy salad and Tibetan barley bread, practiced Zen breathing exercises...
...Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America has worked with major food companies to place rabbinical stamps of approval on thousands of food goods, from cola to canned beans. Many supermarkets carry such modern kosher delicacies as a "bacon" made from beef rather than forbidden pork, and a soybean-based ice cream, made without milk, which can be eaten as a dessert at meals where there is meat...
...crowd octagonal trading pits, flailing the air as they shout "Buy!" or "Sell!" The commodities market is immensely complex, and word of a drought in India or a soaking rain on the Dakota plains has an electric effect on futures trading. Even seasoned brokers, whether they deal in grains, soybean oil or steer carcasses, find the trading nerve-racking and treacherous...