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...killing them in the process. Farmers first noticed the flies getting worse in July, and by September swarms of them looked like white clouds. They covered windshields and got stuck between people's teeth. Farm workers had trouble inhaling and eventually had to wear masks. Not since the Mediterranean fruit-fly scares of the early and late 1980s has California's $18 billion agriculture industry, which during winter supplies close to 90% of the fresh produce in the continental U.S., been so alarmed by a pest...
...store, which is scheduled to open early in January, will sell sandwiches, cheesecake, fruit and frozen yogurt, as well as 15 varieties of bagels and 18 varieties of cream cheese, LaMacchia said. He added that the store plans to deliver orders of more than $10 to students...
...contact, is extremely common: it is present in the gut of 50% of Americans and of up to 90% of people in poorer regions of Asia and Latin America. Researchers believe chronic inflammation, caused by the bacterium, combines with other risk factors, including a salty diet low in fresh fruit and vegetables, to cause the cancer...
Finally, a group of entrepreneurs has made a dramatic effort to build a boat of the future that is radically different from those of the past, involving a lot less yo heave ho. The fruit of their efforts is the Amoco Procyon, a $1.5 million, 65-ft. luxury vessel, built of space-age materials, that demands one- third the crew of an equivalent-size traditional yacht. The Procyon is currently cruising down the U.S. East Coast in a bid to spark interest in its arsenal of design changes, which add up to the automation of a labor-intensive sport...
Maybe it is my penance to be buzz-bombed by giant flies while trying innocently to brush my teeth. In AP Bio last year, I had to kill thousands of fruit flies all in the name of science. We used to dump them, along with the blue medium they lived in, into this jar of alcohol called the morgue. Their spirits have come back to haunt...