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...fully assessed; damp conditions have limited surveys of the damage. But Florida's grapefruit season is barely a month away and there is fear that there will not be enough ripe fruit to reach the market. Early guesstimates provided by growers to the industry group Florida Citrus Mutual indicate a 5% fruit drop among affected groves, with that number likely to increase if there's long term root damage. The area produces about three-quarters of the grapefruit in Florida, which is by far the largest grapefruit- and orange-producing state in the country...
...Before this storm," said Michael Sparks, executive vice president and CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, "there was no doubt that greening was this industry's highest priority and greatest concern." So much so that of the Florida Department of Citrus' $60 million budget - collected from growers as a small percentage of each box of fruit produced - more than $20 million has been set aside for disease research, most of which is focused on greening...
...demand familiar to the Tibetan activists nearby, who have arrived from all over India to join a 24-hour hunger strike. As the protesters use loudspeakers to relay pro-Tibet speeches, a couple of cops stroll by, ogling the rosy-cheeked Tibetan girls. Police and protesters share mutual disdain. "They hate us," laughs Rachna Dhingra, an activist with the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal, which has been camping here since March to demand legal action against the corporation responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, which killed more than 3,000 people. "We're making the police earn their...
...mainland people. The education ministry has decided to recognize mainland diplomas and many mainland students will come to Taiwan to study. I want young people from the two sides to get to know each other at a relatively early stage of their lives. This is the best way for mutual understanding. If we continue to do that, in the next 10 years, you will have mainlanders in Taiwan and Taiwanese on the mainland - a very close interrelationship. I don't see how you can start a war then. That's the best national defense...
...years ago you told us you didn't trust the Chinese mainland leadership. How do you feel now? I think we are developing mutual trust, gradually. I think China's leaders are interested in having this kind of interaction with Taiwan. After all, they don't want an unstable international environment. They don't want...