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WELLINGTON 1/12/2006-The Government is "extremely disappointed" with Australia's final risk assessment on ending the 84-year ban on New Zealand apples, says Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton. The final risk assessment on NZ pipfruit - banned [... more]
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Kiwifruit Growers Receive Payout Lift, But Tough Times Loom
Kiwifruit company Zespri has told growers their share of this year's earnings will be $585 million for the 2003 season, with increases across all varieties of fruit: green, gold and organic. WELLINGTON 8/06/2004 - Kiwifruit company Zespri has ... [... more]
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Nation's Pipfruit Future Doomed As Chinese Crops Loom
New Zealand will have to accept that its apple industry is irretrievably doomed and that China will soon be producing all the world's needs, a former Masterton grower says. MASTERTON 9/12/2005 - New Zealand will have to accept that its apple ... [... more]
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Lili Gamache
BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive author interview and a profile of Lewis Hine! 1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a "doffers" on their mothers' looms in the mill. Grace's mother is the [... more]
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Marc Spitz
Welcome to the big Reagan '80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom era, your main concerns include one... click for more> Taking us back to late '70s and ... [... more]
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Maureen Dezell
Maureen Dezell is a staff writer for the Boston Globe. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick's Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or ... [... more]
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Graham Fraser
As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian - especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country Canada's language policy is the only connection ... [... more]
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Steve Lyon
Path down the Mountain journeys far from her home to live and study the art of weaving with Heron, a master weaver famous for her brilliantly colored cloth. Under Heron's vigilant eye, Path begins to learn the secrets of the loom. But Path has ... [... more]
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Whitney Gaskell
Ellie Winters is dependable and loyal and has a near-phobic aversion to conflict. But as her thirtieth birthday looms ever closer, she starts to feel like she's lost the instruction manual to her life. She... click for more> The Cassel sisters ... [... more]
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