What is interesting about this virus is that "it is helping to spread itself, " said Professor Gene Spafford, director at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

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Mr. Stryjewski likes to use long-grain Louisiana rice sourced from fields west of the city and around Lafayette.

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If you were to drive west out of Baton Rouge to Lafayette and Lake Charles, you will see that most of the land south of I-10 is some form of undeveloped wetland or swamp.

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