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Well, I had whole bouquets of kudzu and I never saw anything close to 47 mpg.
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The team said kudzu covered about three million hectares, and was expanding its reach by about 50, 000 hectares each year.
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As you drive, the right side of the instrument panel display fills up with encouraging green leaves, like efficiency kudzu.
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Kudzu, a member of the pea family, is native to south-eastern Asia.
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On a recent afternoon the sun shone brightly on Blue Springs, a town in the state's north-east thick with scrub trees and kudzu vines.
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"Few plants can survive once smothered by kudzu and small ecosystems could be radically altered, " a 2007 report by the European Plant Protection Organization concluded.
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But the rest of the movie is made up of simplistic, historically ignorant attacks on America as imperialist nation, interspersed with kudzu-like patches of ideological montage.
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Some Americans may view this invasion of a foreign species as somehow fitting and just, given the takeover of so many American acres by invasive Japanese weeds like kudzu and knotweed.
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Today, as cable shopping networks bloom like kudzu, we stuff our closets with Grip-N-Flip kitchen utensils, mixers with dough hooks, tanzanite bracelets and vanilla candles so rank they knock out power lines.
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Using data collected from soil samples, the research team ran an extreme scenario - where kudzu covered all non-urban and non-agricultural soils in the species' range by 2050 - through a "chemical transport" model.
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The roads to Helena, Arkansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, two towns on opposite sides of the Mississippi that played big roles in the development of the blues, have been widened and slathered with new coats of asphalt to enable them to handle traffic heading to the casinos that have proliferated like kudzu along the riverbanks.
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