1
 Soichiro Honda's picture now hangs with Henry Ford's in the U.S. Automotive Hall of Fame,
5001
List

2
 and the game-show Jeopardy is soon to be Sony-owned.
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List

3
 But no matter how much Japan gets under our skin,
4
antithesis

4
 we'll still have mom and apple pie.
5002
span

5
 On second thought, make that just mom.
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antithesis

6
 A Japanese apple
5006
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7
 called the Fuji
6
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8
 is cropping up in orchards the way
5005
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9
 Hondas did on U.S. roads.
8
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10
 By 1995 it will be planted more often than any other apple tree,
5008
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11
 according to a recent survey of six apple-industry sages by Washington State University horticulturist Robert Norton.
10
attribution

12
 Some fruit visionaries say 
13
attribution

13
the Fuji could someday tumble the Red Delicious from the top of America's apple heap.
5009
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14
 It certainly won't get there on looks.
5014
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15
 Compared to the Red Delicious, the exemplar of apple pulchritude,
16
comparison

16
 the Fuji is decidedly more dowdy 
5012
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17
-- generally smaller, less-perfectly shaped, greenish, with tinges of red.
5012
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18
 To hear most U.S. growers tell it,
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19
 we'd still be in Paradise
5015
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20
 if the serpent had proffered one to Eve.
19
condition

21
 But how sweet it is.
5020
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22
 It has more sugar than any apple 
5018
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23
we've ever tested,
22
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24
 says Duane Greene, a University of Massachusetts pomologist, or apple scholar.
5018
attribution

25
 It has a long shelf life 
5025
List

26
and doesn't fool the public, 
5025
List

27
says Grady Auvil, an Orondo, Wash., grower
5024
span

28
 who is planting Fujis
5023
List

29
 and spreading the good word about them.
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List

30
 It doesn't look nice on the outside 
5027
Temporal-Same-Time

31
while getting mealy inside.
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32
 Mr. Auvil, razor sharp at 83, has picked and packed a zillion pecks of apples over the past 65 years.
5035
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33
 He is known as the father of the U.S.-grown Granny Smith, a radically different apple 
5032
span

34
that
5030
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35
 the conventional wisdom once said 
34
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36
would never catch on.
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Same-Unit

37
 It did,
5033
span

38
 shaking the apple establishment to its roots.
37
elaboration-additional

39
 Now, even more radical changes seem afoot
5036
span

40
 as the grand old maverick of American apples plays the role of Hiroshi Appleseed.
39
circumstance

41
 The Fuji is going to be No. 1
5037
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42
 to replace the Red Delicious,
41
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43
 he says.
5037
attribution

44
 The Delicious hegemony won't end anytime soon.
5049
span

45
 New apple trees grow slowly,
5043
List

46
 and the Red Delicious is almost as entrenched as mom.
5043
List

47
 Its roots are patriotic 
5044
span

48
-- with the first trees appearing in 1872 in an orchard near Peru, Iowa,
47
explanation-argumentative

49
 to be exact.
5044
comment

50
 For more than 50 years, it has been the apple of our eye.
5047
span

51
 A good Delicious can indeed be delicious.
50
interpretation-s

52
 More than twice as many Red Delicious apples are grown as the Golden variety, America's No. 2 apple.
5049
elaboration-additional

53
 But the apple industry is ripe for change.
5061
span

54
 Red Delicious has been overplanted,
55
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55
 and its prices have dropped below the cost of production, 
5051
span

56
says Washington State's Mr. Norton.
5051
attribution

57
 The scare over Alar, a growth regulator
5055
span

58
 that makes apples redder and crunchier
59
concession

59
 but may be carcinogenic,
5054
span

60
 made consumers shy away from the Delicious,
5053
span

61
 though they were less affected than the McIntosh.
60
antithesis

62
 The glut and consequent lower prices,
5057
span

63
 combined with cancer fears,
62
elaboration-object-attribute-e

64
 was a very serious blow to growers.
5058
Same-Unit

65
 A lot of growers won't be around in a few years,
5062
span

66
 says Mr. Norton,
65
attribution

67
 although they have stopped using Alar.
5062
concession

68
 One may be William Broderick, a Sterling, Mass., grower.
5070
span

69
 This is beautiful stuff,
5065
span

70
 he says,
5064
span

71
 looking ruefully at big boxes of just-picked Red Delicious next to his barn.
70
elaboration-additional

72
 But I'm going to lose $50,000 to $60,000 on it.
5068
span

73
 I'm going to have to get another job this year
5067
span

74
 just to eat.
73
purpose

75
 Besides rotten prices, he has been hit recently by hail, a bark-nibbling horde of mice, fungi and bugs.
5072
span

76
 Some 500 insects and 150 diseases wiggle, chew and romp through growers' nightmares,
5071
span

77
 including maggots, mites, mildew, thrips, black rot and the flat-headed borer.
76
elaboration-set-member-e

78
 Even if a grower beats them back,
79
concession

79
 his $2,000 rented bees might buzz off to the neighbors' orchards 
5073
span

80
instead of pollinating his,
5073
antithesis

81
 Mr. Broderick says.
5074
attribution

82
 Though growers can't always keep the worm from the apple,
5081
antithesis

83
 they can protect themselves against the price vagaries of any one variety 
5081
span

84
by diversifying 
5080
span

85
-- into the recently imported Gala, a sweet New Zealand native; the Esopus Spitzenburg, reportedly Thomas Jefferson's favorite apple; disease-resistant kinds like the Liberty.
84
elaboration-object-attribute-e

86
 I've ripped out a lot of Delicious
5084
List

87
 and grafted the trees with many different shoots,
5084
List

88
 says Steve Wood, a West Lebanon, N.H., grower,
5083
span

89
 tramping through his 100-acre Poverty Lane Orchard on a crisp autumn day recently.
88
elaboration-additional

90
 I've got 70 kinds of apples.
5091
span

91
 Here's a Waltana,
5087
span

92
 he exclaims,
5086
span

93
 picking one off a tree.
92
elaboration-additional

94
 He bites it,
5088
Sequence

95
 scowls 
5088
Sequence

96
and throws it down.
5088
Sequence

97
 It's a real dog.
5089
span

98
 Supermarkets are getting into the variety act, too.
5104
span

99
 They still buy apples mainly for big, red good looks
5096
span

100
 -- that's why so many taste like woodchucks' punching bags.
99
consequence-s

101
 But freshness counts
5097
span

102
 more than it once did,
101
comparison

103
 and stores are expanding shelf space for unconventional, but tastier, and often pricier, apples.
5098
List

104
 Rather than sell 39-cents-a-pound Delicious,
105
preference

105
 maybe we can sell 79-cents-a-pound Fujis,
5099
span

106
 says Chuck Tryon, perishables director for Super Valu Inc., a Minneapolis supermarket chain and food distributor.
5099
attribution

107
 The Fuji is a product of meticulous Japanese pomological engineering,
5107
span

108
 which fostered it 50 years ago at a government research orchard.
107
elaboration-additional-e

109
 Japanese researchers have bred dozens of strains of Fujis
5108
span

110
 to hone its color, taste and shelf life.
109
purpose

111
 Now the best of them age as gracefully as Grannies, the industry's gold standard for storability.
5109
span

112
 In the cornucopia of go-go apples, the Fuji's track record stands out:
5111
span

113
 During the past 15 years, it has gone from almost zilch to some 50% of Japan's market.
112
evidence

114
 The Japanese apple market is very keyed to high quality,
5113
span

115
 says David Lane, a scientist at a Canadian horticulture research center in Summerland, British Columbia,
114
attribution

116
 and so apples are more of a delicacy there than a big food commodity.
5114
span

117
 The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates
118
attribution

118
 that this year Americans will eat about 40% more fresh apples per capita than the Japanese.
5116
span

119
 The Fuji is still small potatoes in the U.S.,
5118
span

120
 sold mainly in fruit boutiques.
119
elaboration-additional-e

121
 But in California,
5119
span

122
 says Craig Ito, a Fuji-apple grower,
121
attribution-e

123
 There's a Fuji apple cult.
5122
span

124
 Once somebody eats one,
125
circumstance

125
 they get hooked.
5121
span

126
 Mr. Auvil, the Washington grower, says 
5123
attribution

127
that he could sell Fujis to Taiwan buyers at $40 a box
5123
span

128
 if he had them.
127
condition

129
 (Taiwan already is a big importer of Fujis from other places,
5125
span

130
 he adds.)
129
attribution

131
 But his first crop won't be picked till next year.
5128
span

132
 I expect to see the demand exceed supply for Fujis for the next 10 to 15 years,
5127
span

133
 he adds.
132
attribution

134
 Washington Red Delicious, by the way, are wholesaling for less than $10 a box these days.
5129
comparison

135
 Mr. Auvil sees Fujis, in part,
5131
span

136
 as striking a blow against the perversion of U.S. apples by supermarkets.
135
manner

137
 When the chain stores took over,
138
circumstance

138
 there was no longer a connection between grower and consumer.
5132
span

139
 A guy is sitting up in an office 
5134
span

140
deciding
141
attribution

141
 what you're going to eat. 
5133
span

142
 After all, until the 1950s even the Red Delicious was a firm, delectable morsel.
5140
Sequence

143
 Then,
5139
Same-Unit

144
 as growers bred them more for looks,
5137
List

145
 and to satisfy supermarket chains' demands of long-term storage,
5137
List

146
 the Red went into decline.
5138
span

147
 Now, those red applelike things 
5141
span

148
stores sell in summer
147
elaboration-object-attribute-e

149
 are fruitbowl lovely,
5142
Same-Unit

150
 but usually not good eating.
5143
List

151
 They do deserve respect, however
5145
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152
 -- they are almost a year old, probably equal to about 106 in human years.
151
explanation-argumentative

153
 The Fuji,
5149
span

154
 to be sure,
153
comment-e

155
 has blemishes too.
5150
Same-Unit

156
 It ripens later than most apples,
5151
List

157
 and growing it in U.S. areas with chilly autumns may be tricky.
5151
List

158
 Moreover, the frumpy Fuji must compete with an increasingly dolledup Delicious.
5157
span

159
 Mr. Broderick, the Massachusetts grower, says 
5152
attribution

160
the big boss at a supermarket chain even rejected his Red Delicious recently 
5152
span

161
because they weren't waxed and brushed for extra shine.
160
reason

162
 And he hadn't used hormones,
5155
span

163
 which many growers employ 
5154
span

164
to elongate their Delicious apples for greater eye appeal.
163
purpose

165
 Still,
5160
span

166
 Mr. Auvil points out,
165
attribution-e

167
 Grannies became popular 
5159
span

168
without big, red looks,
167
circumstance-e

169
 so why not Fujis?
5162
span

170
 He sees a shift in American values
5163
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171
 -- at least regarding apples --
170
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172
 toward more emphasis on substance and less on glitz.
5164
Same-Unit

173
 Taste has finally come to the fore, 
5165
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174
he says.
173
attribution

175
 Or, for that matter, the core.
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