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Erin McGuire spent years cultivating fruits and vegetables like onions, peppers and tomatoes as a scientist and later director of a lab at the University of California-Davis.

JACKSON, N.H. (AP) 鈥� A skier since age 4, Thomas Brennick now enjoys regular trips to New Hampshire鈥檚 Black Mountain with his two grandchildren. 鈥淚t鈥檚 back to the old days,鈥� he said from the Summit Double chairlift on a recent sunny Friday.

HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (AP) 鈥� Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River.

BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma. Relief efforts from Friday鈥檚 devastating 7.

FREDERICTON 鈥� Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) 鈥� In Uganda's Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city.

CALGARY 鈥� Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is reassuring residents of the city that their water is safe to drink after announcing a sewage pipe underneath the Bow River had to be shut down due to a leak.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) 鈥� An abrupt announcement rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected international deep-sea waters for more than 30 years.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) 鈥� With the promise of newer, cheaper nuclear power on the horizon, U.S.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) 鈥� Drenching rains along the Texas-Mexico border trapped hundreds of people in flooded homes and in cars stranded in high waters, scrambling rescue crews to calls for help that continued Friday even as the downpours let up.