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...Cuba's struggling economy, eggs are often a luxury for many families. But they might be more plentiful if the government could import them more cheaply from the nearby U.S. - which has kept an economic embargo against the communist island for four decades. So it was little wonder that Cuban President Fidel Castro made a point of dropping by the American Egg Board's stand at the Havana food exposition that started yesterday. "How fast can you make them?" he asked New Yorker Howard Kelmer, 64, who is the Board's senior representative - and who holds the Guinness Book...
Farrell said Hispaniola, the island composed of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, is a particularly interesting place for research because of its age and isolation...
...said the insects there—some of which are endemic to the island, which means they are native or confined to that area—can trace evolutionary connections between species in North and South America...
...many ways this island is more interesting than, say, Hawaii and the Galapagos,” he said. “This island is much older—70 to 80 million years...
...time to giving back to the Nantucket community, where her parents reside. There she ran a two-week hockey camp in addition to starting an annual celebrity Charity on Ice benefit in Nantucket’s new ice rink, which donated its funds to youth hockey on the island...