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To: Snowshoe who wrote (81801)	2/13/2002 7:24:07 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116801

Worldwide cocoa shortage may curtail chocolate lovers' treats Joan Lowy Scripps Howard News Service Published Feb 11, 2002 The Aztecs called it the ``food of the gods.'' Casanova preferred it to champagne for seduction. Eighteenth-century French physicians prescribed it to heal broken hearts. A world without chocolate would be barren indeed, but there is that grim prospect if scientists can't find a cure for diseases and pests that already destroy a third of the world's annual cocoa bean crop and are threatening to spread, with devastating consequences. (cont) startribune.com