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An excursion on the Amazon demonstrated how to extract rubber from the rubber trees, a flourishing industry in the 1800’s when Brazil produced 95% of the world’s rubber. Today, due to smuggling of the seeds to the Orient, Brazil now has to import rubber for its own consumption.

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