Beauty Queen Wins Junior High Beauty Walk Title
Miss Deanna Gwyn Thaxton of Hazelwood High School is crowned winner of the Junior High Beauty Walk. Roland Martin, noted professional angler, operates a backyard fishing tank in Broken Arrow Oklahoma. The tank features 7000 gallons, rocks and logs to simulate a lake for observation and filming of bass.
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Deanna Gwyn Thaxton
Hazelwood High School
Broken Arrow
Okla
Roland Martin
Martin
Feverish Land Rush Attracting Thousands To Amazon Frontier
Brazil's southwestern Amazon frontier draws thousands of pioneers to Rondonia led by sharecroppers and former coffee pickers. INCRA struggles to manage land invasions while some settlers win legal deeds and raise crops amid violence and evictions. The town of Cacoal grows from jungle to 15,000 residents as land fever feeds a sprawling, volatile frontier.
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Riest
INCRA
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United States
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Dos Santos
Rondonia
Fruit fly threat reaches southern Mexico prompting eradication plan
The Mediterranean fruit fly has spread into southern Mexico near the Guatemala border raising fears it will reach the United States. A $5 million US Mexican program, coordinated with Guatemala, aims to halt northward movement with a sterile barrier and insecticide spraying.
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Arizona
Florida
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United States Department of Agriculture
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