From that group, 20 are selected to become Borlaug-Ruan International Interns, sent to a wide array of international agricultural research centers each summer for hands-on assignment working on some facet of confronting hunger through science.

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Tickets, which will include an increasingly-rare free seat assignment and two checked bags, could go on sale as soon as soon as this summer.

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