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Florida orange growers are expecting a bumper crop this year, which usually means lower prices consumers. The Agriculture Department is expected on Wednesday to predict a Florida orange crop of 196 million boxes, the second largest crop in history. On Tuesday, Agriculture officials said that fresh fruit consumption in the U.S. has reached its highest rate in 40 years: last year, the average American ate 26 pounds of citrus fruit...
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Around 1500 B.C, Mongolia's climate became colder and drier, prompting a shift from a crop-based to a livestock-centered society. And by about 200 B.C., a warlike people called the Xiongnu had overrun a large part of the region. As part of a peace agreement with China's Han dynasty, the Xiongnu demanded annual tributes of silk, wine, rice, concubines and other luxuries. According to Kessler, the transport of these goods to central Asia marked the earliest full-scale use of the Silk Road, the fabled network of trade routes that ultimately stretched to the Mediterranean...
Harvard's women's volleyball team came into this season with a great deal of enthusiasm. With one of its most talented crop of freshman ever, it was looking to leave behind its ugly seasons of the past and chart plus-.500 territory...
...line-up has been shored up, however, by the arrival of a new crop of talented freshmen. Blake and Tseng are joined by Jose Hernandez Ore and Brandon Bethea in the tennis class...