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UC Davis Launches Olive Research Center
Mar 21 2008, AP

After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flourish of the California wine industry. Now, it hopes to do the same for olive oil.The challenges to the emerging industry...

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This year's Calif. table olive crop is the pits
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Paul Smith's olive shaded sunglasses
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Motorcyclists pose for photographers at the ancient Arcadian Gate, in Messinia, southern Greece, on Sunday July 13, 2008. Starting Monday, July 14 from Pylos, in Greece’s olive-producing southwestern Peloponnese region, a total 55 Greek motorcyclists...

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