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“We were buying orange groves and strawberry...

“We were buying orange groves and strawberry fields . . . now, the closest thing we can find to a strawberry field is a hotel.”

--Robert Niccum, real estate director of Los Angeles Unified School District, on the problem of finding land to build new schools.

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