Other lucrative plants like coffee and chocolate are grown in multiple locations.
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How often do emergency vehicles get into car accidents?
Are police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks immune to traffic accidents?
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Are Zika and toxoplasmosis related?
Should we fear microcephaly causing diseases equally?
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How dangerous are cows?
The Straight Dope: Should you get a moo-ve on if a cow comes charging your way?
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Where did two-letter postal abbreviations come from?
The Straight Dope mails in this week’s column.
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The CTA is crowded and slow. The Reader can fix it!
If only the Straight Dope were running the city!
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When did adult diapers become commercially available?
Cecil Adams soaks up the origin story of adult incontinence products.
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Pick up the redesigned Chicago Reader on newsstands today
Check out the Reader‘s fresh, new look in print.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 4/17: Follow the Reader, Thom Andersen, and Dim Lighting
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, April 17
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Precolonial menstrual solutions? Plants, of course
Before there were tampons, we had softened papyrus leaves
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Letters and Comments: Readers’ Plans to Fix the El
Readers’ Plans to Fix the El
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How to Fix the El
The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization Project is a rare chance to rethink Chicago’s rail system. Here’s what we should do.