> for non-Americans) found out that she "lied" on her application form, they
> deported her. This was an article in a Times article about how the INS has
> basically unlimited powers to deport non-citizens.
>
Except for the deportation bit, that's not much different from the Navy.
They ask you a dozen different ways if you've ever done drugs. If you have,
tell them so -- they won't hold your past against you unless you lie about
it, but if you DO lie about it, and they find out, big trouble.
Re: mistaken plant identity -- I have a pressed leaf of Acer palmatum
dissectum which has gotten me "knowing" winks from some people. Sillier,
though, is when I get that reaction to a pressed Liquidambar styraciflua
leaf. I can also get a reaction by showing people (who have not been to the
tropics) a photo of a field of cassava.
Now how can we get this tangent back to aroids?
Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large
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