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Bemused visitors from across the border note how it has been possible to create a vibrant modern metropolis without the hassles of inner-city blight and violence.
species cause thousands of millions of dollars of damage to the world's commercial crops every year: they blight potatoes and tomatoes, devastate the lucrative soybean, and rot cacao, threatening the world's supply of chocolate (Figure 1).
The English government was responsible for the underlying conditions of the Irish agricultural economy that made the Irish poor so vulnerable to the blight.
The Great Famine struck in 1845 with a blight on the staple food of the poor, the potato.
No doubt Farmer Blight can stand it, and has got used to the jokes produced by a not altogether happy conjunction of name and business.