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‘Pignoli’ or ‘pinon’ complement all kinds of dishes^NEW
"...they are prohibitively expensive in the United States, at a wholesale price upwards of $30 a pound that prevents even specialty markets from stocking them."
Source: Los Angeles Times
Author: N/A
Article: www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1042966&l=1&t=Food&c=13,1042966

Lookout Fire appears human-caused
"About 300 firefighters are fighting Lookout Fire near the town of Corona, which grew to 4,000 acres by Saturday afternoon, engulfing at least two buildings."
Source: KOBTV
Author: The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Article: www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=11122&cat=HOME

ACT Forests defends pine tree proposal
"ACT Forests has defended a proposal to replant pine trees in most of the bushfire-ravaged areas in the Cotter Catchment."
Source: ABC News
Author: Unknown
Article: www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1104392.htm

Warm climate having serious effect in the West
"Temperatures are warmer, ocean levels are rising, the snowpack is dwindling and melting earlier, flowers bloom earlier, mountain glaciers are disappearing and a six-year drought is killing trees by the millions."
Source: The Associated Press
Author: Angie Wagner
Article: www.citizenonline.net/citizen/archive/articleE8555B9BB3ED47198A28A4C6D38DD03A.asp

Mathematicians work to predict spread of pine trees
"A group that used mathematics to predict the spread of diseases such as Sars and smallpox is now trying to stop unwanted pine trees spreading across prime New Zealand farmland."
Source: Stuff
Author: Unknown
Article: www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2897333a7693,00.html

Dangerous fire conditions exist
"A group that used mathematics to predict the spread of diseases such as Sars and smallpox is now trying to stop unwanted pine trees spreading across prime New Zealand farmland."
Source: Alamogordo News
Author: Walter Rubel
Article: www.alamogordonews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=251&num=4080

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