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• Summer may bring a turning point for stock market
In the second week of June, one of the key reports will be the Fed's own evaluation of the economy, its Beige Book survey of how the regions of the U.S. are faring in the current economic climate.
• Dry Barcelona forced to ship in water
But it has been among the regions hardest hit by Spain's worst springtime drought since record-keeping began 60 years ago. "It has been one of the driest years ever, and Barcelona has found itself in need of water," said Leonard Carcole, director ...
• Miller CEO says more are drinking cheap beer
Most regions saw growth, including Latin America and Europe, though sales were flat in South Africa. That's where SABMiller lost its deal to brew and sell Heineken's Amstel brand.
• Women rise in Rwanda's economic revival
We have overwhelming evidence from almost all the developing regions of the world that [investment in] women make better economics," said Winnie Byanyima, director of the United Nations Development Program's gender team.
• China shifts to grim work of burying the dead
As the massive military-led recovery operation inched farther into regions cut off by Monday's quake, the government sought to enlist the public's help with an appeal for everything from hammers to cranes and, in a turnabout, began accepting foreign ...

» Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants - A searchable database compiled by the Institute of Systematic Botany at the University of South Florida with maps, citations, and images and species lists for each county.
» Australian Plant Name Index - Searchable database from the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research.
» Canary Islands Flora - Detailed information and photos of the habitats and plants of these volcanic islands off the coast of Africa.
» Central Washington Native Plants - Images and descriptions of over 200 species, checklist, articles, and links.
» Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium - Information about the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian plants, access to databases on living plants, herbarium specimens, and photographs.
» Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas - Searchable list with notes and some photos.
» Climbers of Guyana - Vegetative key to the climbing plant species of the Mabura Hill region, Guyana, South America.
» East Asian Flora Web - Information and exchange of plants of Southeast Asia and Australasia.
» eFloras - Collection of online floras, including the Flora of China, Flora of North America, Flora of Missouri, Flora of Pakistan, and Trees and Shrubs of the Andes of Ecuador.
» Flora Nordica - A search for Swedish and Latin botanical names, classified by family.
» Flora of China - An international collaborative effort to publish the first English language account of China's vascular plants.
» Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea - Describes the Ethiopian Flora Project managed by the Botanical Museum of the University of Copenhagen.
» Flora of Hokkaido, Japan - Distribution maps of vascular plants grown in Hokkaido are shown.
» Flora of Israel - Information and images from the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens about wild plants in Israel.
» Flora of Maltese Walls - List and images of plants that grow on walls in Malta. Main page is in PDF coding.
» Flora of North America - A systematic accounts of the plant species of North America north of Mexico. Includes names, relationships, characteristics, and distribution.
» Flora of Northern Ireland - A plant database with photographs, information on rare plants and their habitats, searchable by habitat, species, plant family and common names.
» Flora of the Province of Varese - The site describes the flora of San Quiricio in Varese, Italy and work in plant cartography in the province.
» Florida Plants Online - Information about the plant life and plant habitats of Florida.
» A Guide to the Plant Communities of California - Descriptions of thirty or so plant communities that occur in California. Includes pictures and some maps.
» Images from the Flora of Roosevelt, New Jersey - Photographs, mostly of ferns.
» Inventory of the Plants of Pakistan - Information about the project to publish a complete Flora of Pakistan.
» Jordan Flora - Images of native plants in Jordan with no explanatory text.
» Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery - A plant identification resource that covers more than 630 species of trees, grasses, and forbs native to the southern Great Plains.
» Plants of Hull - Survey of the flora of this area in Yorkshire, England.
» Red Book Plants of the Lake Baikal region - List of rare and endangered plants of Irkutsk Oblast and Buryat Republic (Selenga River area)
» Sixth International Flora Malesiana Symposium - Meeting on the plant diversity of Malesia (Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea), held in September 2004 in Manila.
» Southeastern Rare Plant Information Network - Database of rare plant information for species in the southeastern United States, including records for North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and north and central Florida.
» Vascular Plants of Henry W. Coe State Park - A photographic catalog of vascular plants found in a central Coast Ranges park in California.
» Vascular Plants of North Central Florida - Checklist of plants, subdivided by form, with common names.
» Wisconsin Vascular Plant Species - A checklist of naturally occurring vascular plants in Wisconsin with photographs, distribution maps and habitat descriptions.