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To help figure out which seeds to use, he built a database that now traces the family trees of thousands of gargantuan gourds back generations.

Chenoweth, who is as gleaming as a holiday ornament on Liberace’s Christmas tree, arrives at a canny balance of quixotic generosity and parvenu carelessness in her portrayal of a woman she refuses to lampoon.

"Ultimately, there is nothing done for the land, not even a tree is being planted," said Maasai lawyer Joseph Oleshangay, calling the whole thing a "scam".

They look for hardy alder trees, which indicate an area that had been dug up for mining years ago.

The soldiers call it a forest, though it's just a line of scraggy trees separating them from Russian positions.