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For most of the 20 th century, Brazilian elites thought that they could get by on natural resources - cattle ranches, coffee plantations, fruit juices, and soybean farms.

We have seen the Arab Spring blossom haltingly in a few countries; in others, it is still uncertain whether it will bear fruit.

Countries tend to pick the low-hanging fruit as they benefit from imported technologies in the early stages of economic take-off, and growth rates generally slow as economies reach higher levels of development.

Jamaica, say, does not produce frozen salmon or hockey players because investing in industries such as citrus fruit and tourism provides far more certain profits.

Instead, Georgia's long-term economic success will depend on exports to the Russian market: neither Georgian wine nor Georgian fruit is needed in the United States or Italy.

One of the best ways to avoid cancer is to eat lots of fruit and vegetables.

The good news is that, from an economic perspective, there is still plenty of low-hanging fruit for restoring growth.

Whether this thaw yields more meaningful fruit hinges on the North maintaining its freeze on nuclear and missile tests.

The Icelandic gene map would not have been possible but for the ground-breaking work that generated the first gene map in the fruit fly Drosophila 90 years ago.

Today, deCODE followed essentially the same gene-mapping approach worked out in the fruit fly, one which could never have been discovered if humans were the only subjects studied.

Areas of research as esoteric and fundamental as fruit fly genetics have even succumbed.

Today's climate has spawned fruit fly research projects on cocaine and alcohol abuse, degenerative aging, and disease models for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

But this is low-hanging fruit that societies cannot afford to pick.

Barbers, clothes shops, fruit stalls.

The Obama administration has staked significant political capital on the wager that Myanmar's promise may finally bear fruit.

Above all, it shows that international sanctions can bear fruit, and that a diplomatic way forward - even if proves to be a narrow one - is possible.

China, Brazil, and Russia have offered ambitious proposals, which may bear fruit in 10 or 20 years, to make the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights a true international currency.

This move has already borne fruit, with record numbers of rescues late last month.

Although war is unlikely in the coming months, if sanctions on Iran don't bear fruit by early 2011, Israel might feel the need to act.

Upgrading the service sector is low-hanging fruit for Asia, because tremendous investments are not required.

Indeed, the European Union is the fruit of a long, continuous effort to strengthen common norms and rules among European states.

The Americans' supply train would regularly pass through my father's ancestral village, Arak, then a scenic oasis of green gardens and fruit orchards.

Of course, it is difficult to know which exploratory path will bear fruit, and there is no shortage of novel scientific ideas that were proven wrong.

If even one non-mainstream idea bears fruit, it could transform our view of reality and justify all of those heterodox hypotheses that do not.

For Prime Minister David Cameron, all of this, as he implied at the 2011 Munich Security Conference, represents the spoiled fruit of multiculturalism.