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    2012
    1:56pm, EST

    Inspector picks tiny snail off South American flowers imported for Valentine's Day

    Joe Raedle / Getty Images

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists inspect flowers for any foreign pests or diseases at the UPS facility at Miami International Airport on Friday. As Valentine's Day approaches, the airport will see about 85 percent of all flowers imported into the United States. Most of the flowers come from South American growers.

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    A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists uses a magnifying glass to look at a snail that he found and placed in a bottle to identify later while inspecting flowers for any foreign pests or diseases at the UPS facility at Miami International Airport.

    Joe Raedle / Getty Images

    A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialist holds a bottle containing a snail.

    The requirement for imported roses to be bug-free encourages some South American growers to use pesticides heavily, some of which are known to be dangerous.

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    If you consider all the invasive bugs, fish, plants and animals that are brought into this country and cause millions in damage to the sorrounding environment, yes I would say it was worth all those salaries. Have you forgotten about bedbugs? In NYC alone there was a lot of money spent trying to get …

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    2011
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    Roses in memory of Basque Socialist Party politician on 11th anniversary of his assassination

    Vincent West / Reuters

    Raindrops are seen on roses during a memorial ceremony for Basque Socialist Party (PSE) politician Fernando Buesa Blanco on the 11th anniversary of his assassination in Vitoria on Feb. 22. Buesa, along with bodyguard Jorge Diez Elorza, was killed by a car bomb set off by armed Basque separatists, ETA.

    Vincent West / Reuters

    Basque premier Patxi Lopez, bottom left, and politician Jose Antonio Pastor lay an arrangement of roses at a monolith on the 11th anniversary of the assassination of Fernando Buesa in Vitoria on Feb. 22. Basque Socialist Party (PSE) politician Buesa, along with bodyguard Jorge Diez Elorza, was killed by a car bomb set off by armed Basque separatist group, ETA. Lopez said that the "Basque Country will be constructed on the memory of the victims and the truth of what has happened."

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