That cold current is the reason why Peru's coastal plain is a desert (whose soil can be made fertile when irrigated by the waters of rivers rushing down from the Andes).

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The team is finding India, Brazil and Indonesia to be the most fertile spots for stocks, and most of the picks are in the discretionary consumer spending, financial services and manufacturing sectors.

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At face value, the fast-track economies of countries like India and China should be unbelievably fertile territory for business aviation, and in many respects they are.

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As they do, and as the consumption side of the Chinese economy grows in importance, a more fertile environment for the development of creative companies will be created.

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"Girls were not encouraged to participate in sport because there were all these different type of myths: you're not going to be fertile, you're not going to get married one day, you're not going to have the so-called happy ending that would make any mother proud, " Shapinga says.

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The females will probably be fertile for another eight to ten years, so there is still plenty of time.

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Unfortunately, that prosperity could not be sustained during the 19th century, when the lands grew less fertile, and much of the population left for more profitable fields.

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The Arabian Peninsula may be known for its arid deserts, but it's also home to a fertile oasis of economic growth.

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And, it must be said, this is fertile and traditional turf for the Tories, once the unchallenged party of law and order.

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It comes just as farmers should be planting their crops for the main growing season, and it is happening in the most fertile part of the country.

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