A man eats a hot dog at Gray's Papaya on Broadway in New York February 21, 2009. Gray's Papaya has a recession special of two hot dogs and a drink for $4.45. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES) 

A worker prepares a hot dog at Gray's Papaya on Broadway in New York February 21, 2009. Gray's Papaya has a recession special of two hot dogs and a drink for $4.45. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES) 

A worker sprays an insecticides on papaya trees at a plantation in Beranang, near Kuala Lumpur February 3, 2009. REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim (MALAYSIA) 

A worker sprays an insecticides on papaya trees at a plantation in Beranang, near Kuala Lumpur February 3, 2009. REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim (MALAYSIA) 

Martin Parra rides in a truck past his papaya field grown with the budget of the community councils in Rio Tocuyo near Carora in central Venezuela, September 9, 2008. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA) 

A child paddles on the Itaya river through the floating town of Belen, in the jungle city of Iquitos, March 26, 2008. The floating town is situated on the banks of the Amazon River and residents build their houses on rafts which are supported by wooden poles embedded on the riverbed. Also known as the "Venice of Peru", the town can be seen afloat between February and July when the Amazon River reaches high levels, flooding Belen's streets and alleys. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU) 

Employees at a supermarket do the "Papaya" dance in Bicutan, south of Manila, February 8, 2008. Since it was introduced last year, the Papaya's catchy sound and steps have gripped dance floors across the country as well inspiring groovers at less likely venues, including a church, a supermarket and a jail.
REUTERS/John Javellana (PHILIPPINES) 

Employees at a supermarket do the "Papaya" dance in Bicutan, south of Manila February 8, 2008. Since it was introduced last year the Papaya's catchy sound and steps have gripped dance floors across the country as well inspiring groovers at less likely venues, including a church, a supermarket and a jail.
REUTERS/John Javellana (PHILIPPINES) 

A man walks through a field infested by locusts in the coastal city of Bosasso in the North semi-autonomous region of Puntland, June 26, 2007. As if war and hunger were not enough, swarms of locusts have appeared in Somalia, blotting out the sky and destroying orchards. REUTERS/Abdiqani Hassan (SOMALIA) 

A vendor sells watermelon and papaya by the roadside in Karachi May 2, 2007. REUTERS/Zahid Hussein (PAKISTAN) 

A worker selects papayas for exportation at a cultivation base in Sanya, south China's Hainan province September 23, 2006. REUTERS/Vito Lee (CHINA) 

U.S. Health Secretary Mike Leavitt tries his hand at carrying baskets of papayas on the street in downtown Hanoi, Vietnam October 15, 2005. [Leavitt and a contingent of U.S. and World Health Organization flu experts are visiting bird flu-hit Southeast Asian nations this week and diplomats are working to make better alliances for sharing information quickly about any human outbreaks.] 

U.S. Health Secretary Mike Leavitt tries his hand at carrying baskets of papayas on the street in downtown Hanoi, Vietnam October 15, 2005. Leavitt and a contingent of U.S. and World Health Organization flu experts are visiting bird flu-hit Southeast Asian nations this week and diplomats are working to make better alliances for sharing information quickly about any human outbreaks. REUTERS/Kham 

A papaya vendor waits for customers at a distribution center in Guatemala City July 27, 2005. [A controversial trade agreement between the U.S. and Central America is expected to be approved by the U.S. Congress before the end of the week. Under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), Guatemalan fruits, including papayas, would have customs free entrance into the U.S. market.] 

Papayas are seen ready for sale at a distribution center in Guatemala City July 27, 2005. A controversial trade agreement between the U.S. and Central America is expected to be approved by the U.S. Congress before the end of the week. Under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), Guatemalan fruits, including papayas, would have customs free entrance into the U.S. market. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair DNL/SA 

A papaya vendor waits for customers at a distribution center in Guatemala City July 27, 2005. A controversial trade agreement between the U.S. and Central America is expected to be approved by the U.S. Congress before the end of the week. Under the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), Guatemalan fruits, including papayas, would have customs free entrance into the U.S. market. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair DNL/SA 

Greenpeace activists dump thousands of papayas in front of the offices of Thailand's Department of Agriculture in Bangkok. Greenpeace activists protesting against the use of genetically modified organisms dumped thousands of papayas in front of the offices of Thailand's Department of Agriculture in Bangkok, Thailand July 7, 2005. The activists were protesting against what they consider to be the government's disregard for the protection of consumers and the environment against threats caused by the spread of illegal genetically engineered (GE) papaya in Thailand. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom 

Greenpeace activists dump thousands of papayas in front of the offices of Thailand's Department of Agriculture in Bangkok. Greenpeace activists protesting against the use of genetically modified organisms dump thousands of papayas in front of the offices of Thailand's Department of Agriculture in Bangkok, Thailand July 7, 2005. The activists were protesting against what they consider to be the government's disregard for the protection of consumers and the environment against threats caused by the spread of illegal genetically engineered (GE) papaya in Thailand. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom 

A Greenpeace activist "forcefeeds" a doll, representing humans, with a local salad made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) papayas and other ingredients at a rally in front of Government House in Bangkok August 24, 2004. [Thailand has lifted a three-year ban on planting GMOs by allowing the crops to grow in open-field trilas with non-GMO plants, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday.] 

A Greenpeace activist "forcefeeds" a doll, representing humans, with a local salad made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) papayas and other ingredients at a rally in front of Government House in Bangkok August 24, 2004. Thailand has lifted a three-year ban on planting GMOs by allowing the crops to grow in open-field trilas with non-GMO plants, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom CS/FA 

A Thai worker check papayas at a market in Bangkok August 23, 2004. Thailand has lifted a three-year ban on planting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by allowing the crops to grow in open-field trials with non-GMO plants, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom CS/FA 

Farmers holding papaya and mangoes block the highway to the northern
Peruvian town of Tambogrande, during a protest at a $405 million gold
and copper mine planned by Canada's Manhattan Minerals Company,
November 5, 2003. After months of protests and problems, the question
now is whether Manhattan Minerals Corp's planned Tambogrande mine in
the heart of a major mango and lime producing area 653 miles north of
Lima is doomed. FOR RELEASE WITH STORY BC-MINERALS-PERU-TAMBOGRANDE.
PICTURE TAKEN NOVEMBER 5. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

MB 

Farmers holding papaya and mangos block the highway to the northern
Peruvian town of Tambogrande November 5, 2003, in protest of a $405
million gold and copper mine planned by Canadia's Manhattan Minerals
Co. The protesters say that the open-cast pit - which would require
relocation of the town - would ruin their farming livelihood. The
valley produces 40 percent of Peru's limes and mangos for export to the
United States. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

MB 

A Thai spicy papaya salad vendor prepares her specialty for a customer
in Bangkok, October 13, 2003. Hundreds of street vendors operating
along Bangkok's main roads, will be forced to close shop for a week as
the city tries to make itself more presentable for the October 20-21
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

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A Bangladeshi villager looks at papaya tree growing near her home in
northern Lalmonirhat 400 km (250 miles) from Dhaka, April 9, 2003. The
woman began cultivating papaya trees with a loan from a local
micro-credit group, the Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service, which offers
credit to villagers in six districts in northern Bangladesh. Picture
taken April 9, 2003. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman FOR USE WITH FEATURE
BANGLADESH-RURAL

NA/RCS 

Pepe, a Peruvian spectacled bear, eats a papaya in a new reserve near the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu near the southern city of Cusco, August 20, 2002. Spectacled bears, cousins of the beloved childrens' character Paddington, are the only breed of the world's eight species of bear that inhabit tropical regions of the Andes, and their survival has been under threat because of aggressive logging and hunting. 

Pepe, a Peruvian spectacled bear, eats a papaya in a new reserve near
the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu near the southern city of
Cusco, August 20, 2002. Specatcled bears - cousins of the beloved
childrens' character Paddington - are the only breed of the world's
eight species of bear that inhabit tropical regions of the Andes, and
their survival has been under threat because of aggressive logging and
hunting. FOR FEATURE PERU BEARS PICTURE TAKEN AUGUST 20, 2002
REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

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Flood victims in Satkhiraq in Bangladesh's southwestern Jessore district collect papaya October 22, 2000 from a papaya grove destroyed by recent floods. The floods have killed more than 130 people and forced more than two million from their homes, according to official estimates. But bodies were emerging as water levels fell and many relief workers said the believed the death toll was higher.

SAZ/DL 

The Brazilian exotic fruit papaya, produced in Bahia northeastern in
Brazil, is displayed in a market in Sao Paulo downtown June 6. Brazil's
rain-starced northeast is rolling back its agricultural frontiers with
exotic grandiose plants to multiply growing of exotic fruits due their
irrigation of the Sao Fransisco river valley that runs trought the
semi-arid "sertao" region. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

PW/MMR 

TO GO WITH STORY FOOD-BRAZIL-FRUIT - The Brazilian exotic fruit papaya, produced in Bahia northeastern in Brazil, is displayed in a market in Sao Paulo downtown June 6. Brazil's rain-starced northeast is rolling back its agricultural frontiers with exotic grandiose plants to multiply growing of exotic fruits due their irrigation of the Sao Fransisco river valley that runs trought the semi-arid "sertao" region.

PW/MMR 

TO GO WITH STORY FOOD-BRAZIL-FRUIT - The Brazilian exotic fruit mango is displayed in a market in Sao Paulo downtown June 6. Brazil's rain-starced northeast is rolling back its agricultural frontiers with exotic grandiose plants to multiply growing of exotic fruits such as papaya. mango and Iychee, due their irrigation of the Sao Fransisco river valley that runs trought the semi-arid "sertao" region.

PW/MMR 

The Brazilian exotic fruit papaya, produced in Bahia northeastern in Brazil, is displayed in a market in Sao Paulo downtown June 6. Brazil's rain-starced northeast is rolling back its agricultural frontiers with exotic grandiose plants to multiply growing of exotic fruits due their irrigation of the Sao Fransisco river valley that runs trought the semi-arid "sertao" region. 

The Brazilian exotic fruit papaya, produced in Bahia northeastern in Brazil, is displayed in a market in Sao Paulo downtown June 6. Brazil's rain-starced northeast is rolling back its agricultural frontiers with exotic grandiose plants to multiply growing of exotic fruits due their irrigation of the Sao Fransisco river valley that runs trought the semi-arid "sertao" region. 

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley sells hot dogs from behind the counter at a Gray's Papaya shop while campaigning in the Greenwich village section of New York City, March 2. Bradley is campaigning in New York, Connecticut and other New England states in upcoming days in preparation for the March 7 "Super Tuesday" primaries. 

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley laughs as he sells hot dogs from behind the counter at a Gray's Papaya shop while campaigning in the Greenwich village section of New York City, March 2. Bradley is campaigning in New York and Connecticut in preparation for the states' March 7 "Super Tuesday" primaries.

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley sells hot dogs from behind the counter at a Gray's Papaya shop while campaigning in the Greenwich village section of New York City, March 2. Bradley is campaigning in New York, Connecticut and other New England states in upcoming days in preparation for the March 7 "Super Tuesday" primaries.

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley sells hot dogs from behind the counter at a Gray's Papaya shop while campaigning in the Greenwich village section of New York City, March 2. Bradley is campaigning in New York, Connecticut and other New England states in upcoming days in preparation for the March 7 "Super Tuesday" primaries.

JRB/HB 

An East Timorese child helps his father sell papaya in the East Timorese town of Ermera May 3. The Indonesian military and police were still patrolling the streets on high alert after finding eleven bodies of pro-Jakarta militia in Ermera last Saturday.

STR/JBP/CC 

FOR RELEASE WITH STORY BC-THAILAND-CARS - Jessupha Panon, owner of a major Mercedes Benz dealer in Bangkok, shows a sample of her new line of product - papaya salad or somtam as it is known to locals. Economic crisis bites hard into the sales of luxury cars and Jessupha is forced to look to other business for survival. She is opening a restuarant that will offer northeastern foods such as somtam - a very popular street food which was once considered food for the poor. Picture taken 4OCT98.

JK/CC 

Jessupha Panon, owner of a major Mercedes Benz dealer in Bangkok, shows a sample of her new line of product -- papaya salad or somtam as it is known to locals. Economic crisis bites hard into the sales of luxury cars and Jessupha is forced to look to other business for survival. She is opening a restuarant that will offer northeastern foods such as somtam -- a very popular street food which was once considered food for the poor. Picture taken 4OCT98. 

An elderly Vietnamese makes sure his papaya fruit is just right as a street vendor shows off her selection on a busy street corner in downtown Hanoi December 5. People from impoverished areas on the outskirts of the capital travel daily into the city centre in the hope of getting a better price for their goods.

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Indonesian boys try to snatch coins inserted into a papaya smeared with charcoal at a Jakarta neighbourhood during the celebration of the country's 52nd anniversary of independence on August 17. Games involving people from the neighbourhoods are held annually during the celebration.

INDONESIA