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Tiny oranges roll in for the season
Sometimes called "Christmas oranges" because they peak in supermarkets between Thanksgiving and early January, these small, slightly flat mandarins generally are sold in 5-pound boxes. Thin-skinned, easy to peel and (most pleasantly) seedless, intensely sweet clementines stand out as snacking fruit, especially for children. Americans are expected to eat more than 180,000 tons of clementines this year, according to U.S. government and industry figures, most of them from Spain and California. Domestic growers have only recently plunged into the more than $69 million industry. Clementines first came to the United States in 1909 from Algeria and were grown sporadically in Florida and California, says Tracy Kahn, curator of the Citrus Variety Collection at the University of California, Riverside.
Alma(TM) Lasers to Debut Five New Products at the 66th Annual Meeting ...
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Alma Lasers Ltd. ("Alma Lasers"), a global developer and marketer of laser, intense pulsed light, and radiofrequency-based aesthetic devices, announced today that it will unveil five new products at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) in San Antonio, Texas, from February 2nd to 4th. Company representatives will be available during this time to discuss Alma Lasers' full line of products in booth #4465 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. These new products include the Harmony(XL) Multi-Application System, Pixel CO2 OmniFit handpiece, Pixel Er OmniFit handpiece, Pixel CO2 System and Accent(XL) UniLarge handpiece. The Harmony(XL) has more power, five new contact-cooled handpieces, a high-powered Pixel(TM) 2940 for fractional ablative skin resurfacing, Pain-Free Hair Removal, and a LED handpiece for post-treatment erythema.
Wild Card -- Weekend
Only 3 more days until we get after it again in the new year. I hope you're enjoying yourselves as 2005 comes to an end. If you have some thoughts on the old year or resolutions for the new one, you can post it here. Or start your own thread. Or wait until Tuesday ... .
Darfur peace talks in Libya produce only an emboldened Khartoum
As recently as November 9, 2007, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon noted yet again that Khartoum has failed to accept the proposed civilian police and security personnel---more than three months after Resolution 1769, and a year after discussions of such a force were begun in Addis Ababa. China is again supporting Khartoum without qualification despite other forms of obstructionism by the regime, including the refusal to grant land necessary for housing UNAMID forces; denying landing rights for critically important heavy transport aircraft; denying adequate port access; refusing to guarantee unrestricted flights; and refusing to guarantee reporting independence for monitors and other personnel. These forms of obstructionism are detailed in a recent Amnesty International report (see below), as well as by a number of UN officials.
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