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History: Goat Stories  The favorite bedtime story about the
origin of coffee goes like this: Once upon a time in the land of
Arabia Felix (or in Ethiopia, if an Ethiopian is telling the
story), there lived a goatherd named Kaldi. Kaldi was a sober,
responsible goatherd whose goats were also sober, if not
responsible. One night, Kaldi's goats failed to come home, and
in the morning he found them dancing with abandoned glee near a
shiny, dark-leafed shrub with red berries. Kaldi soon determined
that it was the red berries on the shiny, dark-leafed shrub that
caused the goats' eccentric behavior, and soon he was dancing
too.  Finally, a learned imam from a local monastery came by,
sleepily, no doubt, on his way to prayer. He saw the goats
dancing, Kaldi dancing, and the shiny, dark-leafed shrub with
the red berries. Being of a more systematic turn of mind than
the goats or Kaldi, the learned imam subje