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After figuring out how to grow healthy, versatile plants from small cuttings, preservationists started marketing baby trees to reduce the potential for black-market sales. The consortium has already sold 50,000 in Australia. Starting Nov. 15, the plants will ship to gardeners in the U.S. through the National Geographic Society for $99 apiece...
...bigger and better plants," he says. Sales of simple seeds and bulbs have correspondingly slowed, he adds, because plant fans want ever more exotic species that are already partly grown. "Gardeners are more interested in decorating their yard than the old-fashioned process of planting seeds and watching them grow slowly...
Most rare plants--like species recently discovered growing out of cracks in the sides of mountains in Hawaii--tend to thrive only in very specific environments. The Wollemi, on the other hand, can grow in climates as cold as 23°F and all the way up to 113?...
...Number of public schools in the U.S. that have some single-sex classes. The total will probably grow--the Department of Education last week relaxed rules that had limited single-gender education...
...knowing that the U.S. military is too stretched and exhausted to stop it. As North Korea's isolation deepens, Pyongyang may start peddling its nuclear possessions to all manner of interested buyers. Meanwhile, as Richard Haas argues in the current Foreign Affairs, the greater Arab world is likely to grow more radical, more unstable and less amenable to U.S. influence. And that's not to mention the prosepct of future Darfurs, which the next President will find even tougher to stop, given the American public's growing aversion to foreign adventures and the military's inevitable, post-Iraq conflict fatigue...