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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Agricultural Science</title>
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		<title>Researchers ask whether caged egg-laying chickens are miserable stuffed into tiny cages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael J. Crumb</dc:creator>
		
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Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable?

DES MOINES, Iowa — Are cramped chickens crazy chickens?
Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.
At issue are small cages, typically 24 inches wide by 25½ inches deep, that can be shared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle Obama, agriculture secretary visit Alexandria, Va., school, tour its vegetable garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Michelle Obama visits Va. school, tours garden

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — First Lady Michelle Obama received a few gardening tips from students Wednesday as she toured a Virginia elementary school&#8217;s vegetable garden.
Mrs. Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited Hollin Meadows Elementary to promote the Obama administration&#8217;s Healthier U.S. Schools initiative.
Students showed the first lady how they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama ag department converts 11 vehicles to propane as part of 3-year study</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Ala. ag department converts 11 vehicles to propane

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The state Agriculture Department has converted 11 vehicles to propane and will conduct a three-year study to compare them to other department vehicles that use gasoline.
Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks said Monday the study will examine fuel efficiency and cost savings. He said he hopes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama says he&#8217;ll decide soon on sending more US troops to fight in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Obama: decision soon on troops for Afghanistan
TOKYO — President Barack Obama, facing withering criticism for a prolonged decision-making process on Afghanistan, asserted Friday he&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t want the next move to be seen as an &#8220;open-ended commitment.&#8221;
In a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Obama also said he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard-hit Ohio community turns to gardens to help stretch food dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Sewell</dc:creator>
		
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Hard-hit community learns to grow food
WILMINGTON, Ohio — Many of the new gardeners didn&#8217;t know how to grow vegetables, and weren&#8217;t sure what to do with them once they did.

They learned, though, as part of a project by a local college to help a community hard-hit by the recession grow some of its own food.
Wilmington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New breed of Home Economics focuses on careers instead of homemaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Rhor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HOUSTON — In just 40 minutes, Cafe Mirabeau would fill with hungry patrons — and every dish needed to be delectable, every plate a model of perfect presentation.

A squadron of white-jacketed cooks scurried from stove to cutting board, stirring, saucing, dicing, whipping. Thin curls of steam carried tempting hints: freshly simmered sweet potato and pear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates pushes for more focus, advancements in agriculture to help hungry, poor in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DES MOINES, Iowa — The world can make huge strides in reducing hunger and poverty by helping the world&#8217;s poorest farmers become more productive, Microsoft Inc. co-founder Bill Gates said Thursday.

Gates, co-chairman of the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation, spoke at the World Food Prize symposium, where he said more needs to be done to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates Foundation takes agriculture efforts beyond seeds and fertilizer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Gordon Blankinship</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE — The Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation announced plans Thursday to move beyond seeds, fertilizer and agriculture extension services and into politics and public policy in its efforts to bring a green revolution to sub-Saharan Africa.

The foundation announced nine grants totaling nearly $120 million a few hours before Bill Gates was scheduled to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vilsack launches new agriculture agency, says USDA must sharpen its research focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry C. Jackson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The USDA must sharpen the focus of its science and research efforts to emphasize areas where it can make an impact on society, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday.

&#8220;USDA science needs to change to respond to &#8230; pressures, to ensure the sustainability of the American food, fuel, and fiber system and to address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Gates calls Nobel laureate Borlaug a &#8216;warrior against hunger&#8217; at memorial ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Colleagues and friends of Norman Borlaug remembered the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday as a humanitarian who &#8220;built armies of agricultural workers&#8221; to combat famine in the world&#8217;s developing countries.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was president of Texas A&#038;M University during the scientist&#8217;s tenure at the school, told about 1,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates calls Nobel laureate Borlaug a &#8216;warrior against hunger&#8217; at memorial ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blaney</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Colleagues and friends of Norman Borlaug remembered the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday as a humanitarian who &#8220;built armies of agricultural workers&#8221; to combat famine in the world&#8217;s developing countries.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who was president of Texas A&#038;M University during the scientist&#8217;s tenure at the school, told about 1,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar beet debate leaves farmers waiting as Colo.&#8217;s Boulder County reconsiders biotech crops</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine Tsai</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOULDER, Colo. — Famuer Rasmussen Jr. and five other farmers filed what they thought was a routine request to grow genetically modified sugar beets on public land in Colorado&#8217;s Boulder County. The county already had allowed genetically altered corn.

But the farmers got an earful.
Complaints from residents and organic food activists concerned about the crops&#8217; safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perennial wheat holds promise for farmers, environment but decades more research needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROSS TOWNSHIP, Mich. — As Steve Culman squatted in the southwestern Michigan farm field, he used his left hand to gently clasp several dead wheat stalks still in the ground, then pointed with his right toward something remarkable near the bottom of them.

There were new sprouts of wheat, emerging shortly after the summer harvest.
Culman is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists, foodies and farmers join Univerisity of Wisconsin debate over Pollan&#8217;s &#8216;Food&#8217; book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MADISON, Wis. — One best-selling book advocating fresh, local foods is shaking up America&#8217;s Dairyland.

Students across University of Wisconsin-Madison&#8217;s campus, organic grocers, scientists, and dairy farmers large and small have jumped into the debate on how food is produced and eaten. The discussions started last month when the university began giving Michael Pollan&#8217;s book, &#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAO report: Agriculture Department failed to tell schools about recalls of suspect food</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libby Quaid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Federal authorities failed to tell schools about recalls of potentially tainted peanut products and canned vegetables, and cafeterias may have unknowingly served them to children, the Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday.

A GAO investigation found the Agriculture Department didn&#8217;t always make sure states and schools were notified promptly about recalled food distributed through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norman Borlaug, who developed crops that helped save millions from world hunger, died at 95</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Curry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS — Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited with saving up to 1 billion people from starvation.

Borlaug, 95, died Saturday from complications of cancer at his Dallas home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at honors bestowed on Norman Borlaug</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the &#8220;green revolution,&#8221; died Saturday at his home in Dallas at age 95. Here is a look at some of the honors he received:

—Nobel Peace Prize, 1970
—Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1970
—Aztec Eagle, Government of Mexico, 1970
—Outstanding Agricultural Achievement Award, World Farm Foundation (USA), 1971
—Presidential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prize-winning scientist Norman Borlaug, father of the &#8216;green revolution,&#8217; dies at age 95</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS — Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the &#8220;green revolution&#8221; who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&#038;M University spokeswoman said. He was 95.

Borlaug died Saturday night at his home in Dallas from complications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study says climate change threatens water, food security for 1.6 billion people in South Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Binaj Gurubacharya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KATMANDU, Nepal — Effects of climate change including the melting of Himalayan glaciers threaten water and food security for more than 1.6 billion people living in South Asia, according to a study released Wednesday.

India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Nepal will be most vulnerable to falling crop yields caused by glacier retreat, floods, droughts and erratic rainfall, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Crazy&#8217; ants attacking honeybees as they spread across southeast Texas, vexing beekeepers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Stewart Ball</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS — A species of ant that has ruined sewage pumps, fouled computers and made it difficult for homeowners to enjoy their yards has a new target: the honeybee.

The range of the so-called Rasberry crazy ant has more than doubled in the past year, creating a swath in 11 counties beginning near Houston and moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyoming looks to join other western states in growing sunflowers, other oilseeds for biofuels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Joyce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming&#8217;s agriculture industry is looking at the oilseed crops camelina, canola and sunflowers as part of an effort to diversify farming and produce the seed stock for biofuel.

Researchers are testing Wyoming&#8217;s ability to grow oilseed crops, which are already getting attention in nearby states such as Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campus cuisine: More dorm cooking and individualized dining hall takeout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth J. Harpaz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, eating in a college dorm meant soup in a hotpot or getting pizza delivered. The most interesting thing about the campus dining hall was often the salad bar.

No more. These days, college students have gourmet palates and a growing interest in preparing their own food. Mini-refrigerators and microwaves in dorm rooms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers hope tiny parasite can help protect Midwestern soybeans from destructive insects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Ortman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — An insect no bigger than a comma is being studied as a natural predator that farmers could use instead of chemicals to protect the nation&#8217;s soybean crop from aphids.

The question for university researchers across the Midwest is whether the tiny Asian insect can survive harsh winters here.
Researchers are exploring a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pecan growers look beyond nutshell to space for help perfecting million-dollar nut crop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Dabovich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Space is preparing to go a little nuts.

NASA satellite images could soon give information to nut growers about their orchard&#8217;s health, allowing them to stay ahead of plant stress issues, pests and diseases that could affect crop yield and quality.
Researchers from New Mexico State University, Texas A&#038;M and University of California-Davis recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farming with Oxen 101: VT college students learn old-fashioned, sustainable agriculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Rathke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[POULTNEY, Vt. — Devin Lyons typically starts his days this summer cooking breakfast with fresh eggs from the farm&#8217;s chicken coop. Then, depending on the weather, he and a dozen other college students might cut hay in the field using a team of oxen, turn compost or weed vegetable beds.

While other college students are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study finds forest conservation in Indonesia could be as profitable as palm oil plantations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Casey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK — Selling credits for the billions of tons of carbon that are locked in Indonesia&#8217;s tropical rain forests could be as profitable as converting these areas into palm oil plantations, a study released Friday found.

The study, in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Letters, also found that conserving the 3.3 million hectares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pig farm shows how agriculture can turn one cause of global warming to partial solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Max</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[STERKSEL, Netherlands — The 2,700 pigs on the farm that John Horrevorts manages yield more than ham and bacon. A biogas plant makes enough electricity from their waste to run the farm and feeds extra wattage into the Dutch national grid.

He even gets bonus payments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
As the world struggles to reduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women bear largest burden in hunger crisis raging in Africa and across developing world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Bryson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BULAWAYO, Swaziland — Phetsile Ndwandwe, short, skinny and 23 years old, accepts an apple from a development worker and nibbles at it, stripping the peel with her teeth before handing the fruit to Siphokazi, her baby daughter.

Siphokazi manages a bite of the apple, the first fruit she has had in months, then thanks her mother [...]]]></description>
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