Cold Harbor holds special meaning to me, and why I feel most welcome at Locust Grove.
The only losers would be Washington's locust-like lobbyists and lawyers, who feast off the current disastrous system.
Fred and Judy Wilpon moved from Roslyn Harbor to an estate in Locust Valley, on Long Island Sound.
Just imagine the locust-and-horse meat menus European chefs may soon be whipping up.
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They feed mainly on fruit and vegetables, "with the odd mouse or locust thrown in for good measure", Mr Harris said.
They were drawn by memories of hominy grits, pole beans, black-eyed peas, oxtail and collard greens, of mimosa, locust and dogwood trees.
Even more help is urgently needed, FAO officials said, in order to prevent an even worse humanitarian crisis tied to the locust plague.
But few of them are as short-term as the locust-critics suggest: typically, they invest in a firm for around five or six years.
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He rarely spends more than two days in one place and has choked down plenty of challenging meals--donkey, dog and locust included--for the cause.
The procession is set to begin Monday, she said, with heavy-duty trucks hauling the first two modular pods of steel, black locust and tile.
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Doing nothing would mean the locust plague could spread across two-thirds of the island, which sits in the Indian Ocean off Africa's southeastern coast.
DBAG, one of Germany's oldest private-equity firms, is not obviously locust-like.
The Locust Control Centre in Madagascar had treated 30, 000 hectares of farmland since last October, but a cyclone in February made the situation worse, the FAO said.
That sentiment was echoed in Des Moines, another stop along the tour, where the Des Moines Register and Dwolla co-hosted an uncaucus on the Locust Street bridge.
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Officially known as the West Indian Locust, the stinking toe tree produces a seed pod that looks like a big, brown toe and also smells like one when the hard outer shell is cracked open.
Russia's prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, said that the explosion of a Russian rocket over Kazakhstan on July 5th, which set off a political quarrel between the two countries, was a minor problem compared with the locust invasion.
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