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Mining exposition

3 February 2010 | Comment
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“We deed NOT come to Chin-ah to pleeey arrround!”  The African exhibitor from Zimbabwe holds both hands out in front of him as if he’s squeezing a brick of gold between his palms.  He looks me dead in the eye, his gut busting out over his beltline like a gigantic stone about to roll off [...]

The Forgotten Gardener, the Avenue of Civilization, and the longest street in China

27 June 2009 | 2 comments
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Luther Burbank Luther Burbank most likely would never have been able to locate the city ofLangfangW on a map of China.  As a lifelong botanist and horticulturalist, Mr. Burbank spent a good deal of his time in the garden in his modest Californian home.  Asian explorer he was not.  Amongst other creations, Mr. Burbank is credited with developing more than “800 strains [...]