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...mornings, open air markets line the streets and balding football field of Penalolen's shantytowns. Vendors sell everything from fresh fruit to used clothes to posters of the Virgin Mary, Twisted Sister and Che Guevera...
...ended up compromising on unsaturated fat vegetable oil, non-dairy sour cream and no-sugar apple sauce. We served fruit salad, made cookies with yummy egg-substitutes and played driedel with unsalted peanuts as the reward...
...Fruit vendors sell ripe pears and grapes to grateful Moscovites out of the back of trucks and cars. Suddenly, police officers appear from the Office of the Division for the Struggle Against the Theft of Socialist Property (OBKhSS). The vendors are arrested for selling state property. Their goods are confiscated...
...first hint of a visit by fruit flies is invariably met with quarantines . and airborne-insecticide spraying campaigns. The new Superbug has no effective native predators in California, and pesticides are largely useless against it. If it continues unchecked, Imperial Valley could be put out of business for months. That could cause an estimated $200 million in farm losses by spring and higher prices at the produce counter. The wholesale price of melon has tripled, and by one reckoning, the average cost of a head of lettuce in a supermarket could go from $1.19 to about $1.50. In some areas...
Florida is a little too cool and rainy, on average, for the Superbug's taste, and the infestation there was never as serious. But when the fly arrived in Southern California, probably in a fruit basket or vegetable shipment, it felt right at home in the dry weather and summer temperatures that can reach 46 degreesC (115 degreesF). Because the insect is happy eating some 500 varieties of plants (one of the only vegetables it doesn't seem to like is asparagus), it found the fertile Imperial Valley to be a veritable smorgasbord...