Night wiped out GM papaya trees on Hawaii Big Island farm
Unknown assailants chopped down 3000 trees on five leased acres across 10 acres under cover of night. The attack, likely machete work, left fruit rotting and stoking eco-terrorism fears among papaya growers. Farmers plan to replant after losses of 15 thousand dollars and ongoing concerns about GMO crops.
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Olulu (Ap
Big Island
Hawaii
Delan Perry
Hawaii Papaya Industry Association
Oahu
University of Hawaii
Puna
Kevin Richards
American Farm Bureau Federation
Richards
Australia
Manshardt
Africa
Latin America
Perry
Erlinda Bernardo
Survivors recallInd. stage collapse at State Fair
In Indianapolis a 60 to 70 mph wind toppled a stage scaffold at the Indiana State Fair killing six and injuring many. Dr Rob Klinestiver and his 12 year old daughter Leah helped evacuate others as bystanders aided Maggie Mullin, a 3 year old girl. Nathan Byrd, a stagehand, died the next day. Police and hospital crews battled to save victims amid chaotic wreckage and shifting chances of survival.
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Indianapolis
Rob Klinestiver
Sugarland
Indiana
Klinesiiver
Sugar Pit
Jennifer Nettles
Leah
Laura
Elise
Klinesilver
Caine
Coera
Maggie Mullin
Disney World
Laura Magdziarz
Morocco
Ind
Magdziarz
Maggie
Karen Brunn
Island Lake
Ill
Josh
Nine
Brunn
Natalie Prater
Prater
Byrd
Connie Hoagland
Champaign
Indianapolis Children's Hospital
Eagland
Bruan
Hoagland
Rise Iarz
Investig
Obama’s summer reading list at Martha’s Vineyard
The White House says President Obama bought two new books at a Martha’s Vineyard shop and brought three others from Washington for his 10 day stay. The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell and Rodin’s Debutante by Ward Just are new to his pile, while he also has Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese To the End of the Land by David Grossman and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
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White House
Obama
Martha's Vineyard
Washington
Daniel Woodrell
Louisiana
Rodin
Ward Just
Chicago
Abraham Verghese
America
Hydrocodone Abuse Rises Across the Nation
Health agencies warn of a sharp rise in hydrocodone based medicines like Vicodin Norco and Lortab with police seizures second only to oxycodone. Seizures jumped from 13 659 in 2001 to 44 815 in 2010. The National Institutes of Health report shows about 8 percent of 12th graders abused hydrocodone last year. Florida deaths tally 910 hydrocodone related fatalities and 1 803 related deaths 2003 2007. Pharmacy robberies nearly doubled 2006 2010 signaling escalating violence to obtain drugs.
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New York
Norco
Drug Enforcement Administration
National Institutes of Health
Florida
DEA
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Hawaii Crop Improvement Association
Barack Obama
Bunch of Grapes
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Nathan Byrd
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