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Slideshow: Valentine roses from Kenya come with a whiff of danger

3:29 PM Wed, Feb 13, 2008 |
By Sheila Lennon    Email this author |   Email this entry

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Roses for export in Naivasha, Kenya last Thursday.

From Kenya, Flowers in Kenya is a narrated slideshow of stunning contrasts by AP.


The story:Kenya violence threatens flower exports

Tech note: At the bottom of the slideshow are links to Play, Pause and Captions (to the left of the progress bar below the photos). I mention it because the type is so dark on my screen that I missed the captions the first time through.

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1 Comments

trudy said:

Some carbon footprint. I'm thinking they would be better off growing food or something else for local consumption.

I have a cousin over there. She says the tourist trade is zero now.




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