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May 23, 2006
Jacob Cherian - All Headline News ContributorSao Paulo, Brazil (AHN)-- Family visits to Sao Paulo prisons are allowed once a week but jailed Brazilian gangsters chat on their contraband cell phones every day.
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May 22, 2006
Officials working at a Budapest zoo say the monkeys and apes drink up to 55 liters of red wine annually. The wine which is administered in bits is intended to boost the animals' red blood cells.
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January 25, 2006
According to data from a University of Massachusetts study, proanthocyanidins, or PACs, found in cranberries inhibit the growth of lung tumors and colon and leukemia cells in vitro. Cranberry PACs contain a unique A-type structure, while most other fruit contains only the more-common B-type PACs.
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December 19, 2005
Berlin's highest court ruled Monday that convicts cannot have Christmas trees in their cells out of concern that they may use them to smuggle in drugs. The decision overturns a ruling by a lower court which allowed prisoners to decorate their cells with a tree of "no more than 50 centimeters (19. 7 inches) in height. "
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October 13, 2005
Scientists say by keeping carbon in their fields through no-till farming practices, farmers can help countries meet targeted reductions in atmospheric carbon dioxide and reduce the harmful effects of global warming. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee say, "Our research focuses on the feasibility of different sequestration schemes for reducing natural emissions of carbon dioxide or enhancing the natural uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide. "
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