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Coffee: The $100 Latte Late-night TV host

David Letterman famously said that without
coffee, "I'd have no identifiable personality
whatsoever." Imagine, then, the personality in
the new varieties of coffee now selling for more
than $50 a pound. Coffee connoisseurs treat
these gourmet beans with the same reverence
oenophiles reserve for a fine 1989 Bordeaux:

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My Turn • Zakaria: America’s Mistakes on Saddam’s Trial
National News • Richard Haass: The New Middle East

Politics • Iraq: Are More U.S. Troops the Answer?

World News The Guatemala Special Reserve El Injerto is the

International Ed. latest coffee to set roasters astir. This year's WORLD AFFAIRS
War in Iraq crop set wholesale auction records, going for • How the U.S. Is Losing the PR War In Iraq
Business $25.20 per pound (the wholesale price for • McCain vs. Hagel: Two Views on the War
Enterprise commoditized coffee is just over a dollar a • Beijing Battles to Control its Booming Coal Biz
Tech & Science pound). This high-altitude bean yields a "very • China's Runaway Coal Industry
• High
Cured
Health lively" coffee with strong citric notes, according Measu
Society to George Howell of TerroirCoffee.com (about
Education $50).

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The finest pedigreed bean is probably that of The St. Helena Coffee
Co., grown on the small South Atlantic island. Napoleon
WORLDwasBUSINESS
a fan
during his exile there; for just $62.50 a pound, • Latin America Upbeat on Future
you can be, too (st-helena-coffee.sh). • Chile Takes a Step to the Left
• Global Investor: Why Bears Are Wrong
For the cup that Coffee Review called "perfumed
• Netting Friends Online
perfection," look for Panama Esmeralda Especial.
Declared "Best of Panama" for three years
running, the Especial mixes African seeds and SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Central American soil to produce a cup with • Bioinvaders: The Next Plague
strong berry flavors (about $100; • Counterinsurgency: The Great Goat War
haciendaesmeralda.com). • Phones: Too Much Data?
• Surveillance: Video Evidence
The world's priciest coffee hails from Indonesia.
All Kopi Luwak beans have been eaten by the
SOCIETY AND THE ARTS
palm civet, a raccoonlike mammal. Workers
collect the animal's droppings—really!—to find • The Capital Of Cool

beans that are then cleaned and dried. The • How Friends Finished Steve Irwin's Last Film

coffee's hefty price tag ($200 for a one-pound • Spycraft as Thespianage

gift set) reflects the fact that the civets "don't

just scarf any [coffee] cherry they find," says DEPARTMENTS
Troy Davis of animalcoffee.com. "They find
• International Periscope
which ones are best and ripest." A cup of Kopi
• Perspectives
Luwak virtually guarantees personality of the
• William Drozniak: Germany Takes Center Stage
most unique sort. • The Good Life
• Last Word: Bjorn Ulvaeus
—Barrett Sheridan

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