Wealthy landowners flocked to the area, building plantations to grow Sea Island cotton, among other goods.

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Here, at the northernmost tip of the island, the vines grow thick, branches bent double with grapes ready for harvest.

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To the south, on Stocking Island, luminescent red starfish grow to over a foot in diameter.

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The pro-embargo folks are ignoring the policy's epic failure and fail to recognize that U.S. policy has played into the hands of the Castro brothers, who have sinisterly used it to make the case to their people that if Cuba is starving and the island economy can't grow, it's because of this U.S. policy.

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But the sea level is rising, so much so that the nation's water has become too salty to drink and to grow vegetables, especially taro, a vegetable that was once the island's staple food.

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Balakrishnan would grow up to form a jazz-classical fusion outfit called the Turtle Island Quartet.

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Like all Pacific Island teams, if you give them the ammunition, they grow as a team and make life very difficult for you.

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The people on the island a lovely, verdant place where all trees, including olives, grow much taller than elsewhere in Greece are deeply divided over the practice.

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The island is a farm, so there are cattle to tend, timber to cut and organic crops to grow.

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