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Whenever an island family needed cash, they would gather mature coconuts and make copra.At least until a few years ago, when copra prices plunged.  The coconut tree, abundant everywhere, offered a cash income for the simplest of families.  This Marshallese, shown scraping out the dried coconut meat, is doing what people everywhere had been doing for years.
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