Blog of Ben

I’m fed-up with high gas prices as anybody else. Except I have a 70 mile per gallon Vespa, so maybe I don’t really care quite as much.
People often ask me about my scooter… how many miles it gets, how fast, etc. So I’ve decided to start a new site to do the talking for [...]

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“Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there lays a largely unnoticed fact: bananas are dying. The foodstuff, more heavily consumed even than rice or potatoes, has its own form of cancer. It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible.
There is no cure. They all die [...]

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