Paying into a fund monitoring an eradicated insect that nearly wiped out North Carolina's cotton crop a century ago could easily be translated to a tax. This one is pretty good for the nation's fifth ...

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is a case containing specimens of the boll weevil -- the tiny insect that has been causing millions of dollars worth of damage to the cotton crop in Texas for the last few seasons. View Full Artic ...