Foe example is it ironic?
1. that in the Necklace..a story by Guy du Maupassant about a borrowed diamond necklace that was lost and replaced at great and cruel cost years later was determined to have been made of cheap glass.
2. that in O. Henry's story The Gift of the Magi, a young couple is too poor to buy each other Christmas gifts. The man finally pawns his heirloom pocket watch to buy his wife a set of combs for her long, beautiful, prized hair. She, meanwhile, cuts off her treasured hair to sell it to a wig-maker for money to buy her husband a watch-chain.
3. that the origin of the Taliban that provided support and haven to Osaama Bin Laden was fostered...even created... by US CIA support through Pakistani ISI to fight gaianst the Russian occupation of Afghanistan
4. that Kudzu was introduced from Japan into the United States in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, where it was promoted as a forage crop and an ornamental plant. From 1935 to the early 1950s the Soil Conservation Service encouraged farmers in the southeastern United States to plant kudzu to reduce soil erosion as above, and the Civilian Conservation Corps planted it widely for many years.
However, it would soon be discovered that the southeastern US has near-perfect conditions for kudzu to grow out of control — hot, humid summers, frequent rainfall, temperate winters with few hard freezes (kudzu cannot tolerate low freezing temperatures that bring the frost line down through its entire root system, a rare occurrence in this region), and no natural predators. As such, the once-promoted plant was named a pest weed by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1953.
Kudzu has naturalized into about 20,000 to 30,000 square kilometers of land in the United States and costs around $500 million annually in lost cropland and control costs.
Yet Kudzu may prove to be an excellent source of cellulose a poetntial feed stock for celluliac ethanol.
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