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    Unsolicited seeds analysed by APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) botanists at the National Identification Services (NIS) Lab in Beltsville, Maryland. In 2015, investigators working for the travel review platform Tripadvisor identified an illegal Italian business called PromoSalento, which was offering to write fake reviews for hospitality businesses to help them improve their ...

  3. Institute of Plant Industry - Wikipedia

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    The Institute of Plant Industry was established in 1921 in Leningrad by Nikolai Vavilov who set about to create the world's first and largest collection of plant seeds. . Already in 1916 he did his first collection trip abroad, to Iran, and by 1932 he had collected seeds from almost every country in the world, which by 1933 had made the institute the largest seed bank in the world, with more ...

  4. Consumer Reports - Wikipedia

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    Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.

  5. Are Seed Oils Really Killing Us? We Asked the Experts - AOL

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    Technically, a seed oil is a cooking oil made by pressing seeds to extract the fat. But the current pariahs are canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soy, rice bran, sunflower, and safflower oils.

  6. Hope Gas farm-tap proposal sparks complaints, concerns from ...

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    Oct. 25—MORGANTOWN — A Hope Gas proposal to convert 629 farm-tap customers to propane has drawn significant opposition—with 31 letters of protest filed in six days. Some point out they, and ...

  7. Nikolai Vavilov - Wikipedia

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    The Leningrad seedbank was preserved and protected through the 28-month long Siege of Leningrad. While the Soviets had ordered the evacuation of art from the Hermitage Museum, they had not evacuated the 250,000 samples of seeds, roots, and fruits stored in what was then the world's largest seedbank. A group of scientists at the Vavilov ...

  8. Ripoff Report - Wikipedia

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    Let the truth be known", the site allows competitors, and not just consumers, to post comments. The Ripoff Report home page also says: "Complaints Reviews Scams Lawsuits Frauds Reported, File your review. Consumers educating consumers", which allows a reasonable inference that the Ripoff Report encourages negative content.

  9. How the brutal WWII siege of Leningrad explains Putin's ... - AOL

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    It is impossible to understand Putin without appreciating how deeply World War II informs his thinking — how the siege of Leningrad is seen as singularly heroic in the Russian psyche.