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This quiz first posted on (02/27/08)
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This one-time quiet and out-of-the-way place exploded into prominence when a fast-growing industry's product was produced there. (It experienced a economic and population boom as a rubber producing center)
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This one-time quiet and out-of-the-way place returned to obscurity when a declining industry's product was suddenly less in demand. (Today this once prosperous city has less than 15,000 residents, and many still live in poverty)
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This South American city was one of the production centers for an elastic hydrocarbon polymer that naturally occurs as a milky colloidal suspension, or latex, in the sap of some plants. It prospered until a synthetic substitute was developed and most of the natural production shifted to Southeast Asia
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Cobija, Bolivia
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Andrew Pecor, Alexandria, Virginia USA
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