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| MAP: INFECTED AREAS The beetle has infested living trees in Chicago and New York City and has been spotted in warehouses in 26 cities across the U.S. Nobody knows how many may have escaped. "An awful lot of solid wood packing material came into an awful lot of places," warns a USDA scientist |
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| Sources: USDA; Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; E. Richard Hoebeke, Cornell University; University of Vermont; Hugh Johnson's Encyclopedia of Trees; TIME Graphic by Lon Tweeten; Text by Jackson Dykman FROM THE MAY 27, 2002 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED MONDAY, MAY 20, 2002 |
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