New Mexico Is Reaping a Bounty in Pecans as Other States Struggle
By DAN FROSCH
Thanks to sophisticated irrigation systems and an arid climate that helps ward off crop disease, New Mexico farmers are enjoying a bumper crop and high prices.
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Archaeologists say humans reached what is now northeast Brazil as early as 22,000 years ago, upending a prevailing belief of 20th-century archaeology in the United States that people arrived in the Americas about 13,000 years ago.
Fort Totten, once for Army officers, is now equipped for scientists researching trees.
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An advocacy group said at a congressional hearing that veterans and civilians continued to feel the effects of burn pits used to dispose of military waste, and that Washington must aid sufferers.
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A scientist talks about how his son inspired a change in his own work and in the direction of autism research as a whole.
Evidence that a relatively low-tech strategy for combating the disease can work well, if it is rigorously applied.
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