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Due to the fact that CFL's and T5, T8 lighitng is often in the news these days I thought it may be prudent to provide some general information for everyone about the facts regarding CFL's and mercury.

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Newsflash

By Robert Barlow, staff writer
Rush-Henrietta Post
Tue Jul 08, 2008, 07:24 AM EDT

Henrietta, N.Y. -
Attendees of this year’s Monroe County Fair will be able to eat like astronauts.

In order to colonize or travel to other planets, space explorers must produce their own food. Traditional farming won’t work because alien soils may be hostile to agriculture and soil is too heavy to take into space. The solution — hydroponics — or growing in something that is not soil based.