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FRANCA, Brazil – To understand why coffee now costs a record $7 per pound in a typical American supermarket, take a bumpy dirt road into the hills of southeastern Brazil, past lines of purple-flowered trees and into the parched coffee fields of Augusto Rodrigues Alves.