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Washington Post  | November 03, 2009

Briefly at the end of each growing season, maple leaves seem to want to imitate the sun, whose energy they've been dutifully collecting all summer. As their green-pigmented chlorophyll breaks down, they glow red and orange in a display more suitable to the exhibitionist tropics than the sober temper...
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