The idea was that when people came to settle years later, the trees would be producing mature fruit and newcomer homesteaders would not starve.

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He and his wife get by in part by producing their own eggs, fruit and vegetables on 2 acres they own with their home on Bainbridge Island.

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His ten-person team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has battled Kandel to a draw by producing, in a dramatic series of experiments, fruit flies with photographic memory.

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