Word: hernando
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Swarming in numbers not seen since the early 1950s, voracious grasshoppers have descended upon Florida's Pasco, Hernando and Hillsborough counties, near the center of the state's $1 billion-a-year citrus-growing industry. Already the insatiable insects have infested more than 10,000 acres of citrus groves, hayfields and pine forests. "The grasshoppers are so thick that the ground literally moves," says department of agriculture spokeswoman Michele McLawhorn...
Given the problems inherent in the subject matter coupled with a largely indistinguishable ensemble cast, the talented performances offered by John Ducey as Pizarro and Peter Mitchell in the role of Hernando De Soto are unexpected gems. These two stand alone among their 20 or so comrades as actors who can captivate the audience...
...this stubborn streak has kept the author from building the alliances, particularly with leftist groups, that he needs to govern Peru effectively. Instead, they say, he relies on advice from a small cadre of confidants that includes his wife Patricia, 43. "He is very alone out there," says Hernando de Soto, a leading Peruvian economist and onetime friend...