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Science Monday 15 July 2019

New Mexico, Colorado get fired up over hot peppers HEALTH

By S. MONTOYA BRYAN threatened to rile anglers DOCTOR ON DUTY
Associated Press when she tweeted about Oranjestad
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New Mexico Gov. Michelle northwestern New Mexico. Tel. 527 4000
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of Colorado proclaimed other in which Lujan PHARMACY ON DUTY
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and juices. growers association to bet-
New Mexico’s chile ex- ter promote their peppers.
perts contend there’s no Since then, Whole Foods
mistaking its hot peppers. opted to go with Pueblo
Once a person tastes them chile for its stores in Colo-
or smells them roasting at rado and elsewhere in the July 16
farmers markets and gro- Rocky Mountain region. Freedom of the Seas
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