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.

A $20 bill mysteriously printed on top of an ordinary fruit sticker sold Friday for $25,300, an auction company official said. The flawed note bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson's portrait. The buyer at the Orlando, Fla. , auction did not want to be identified. The 1996 bill originated at a U. S. Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, but how the fruit tag found its way onto the paper of the greenback is unknown.

Figures show Kwanzaa is growing in popularity. Bill Nesmith, a reference librarian at Person County public library in Rocksboro, N. C. , says interest in the holiday is growing, with about 13 million people now celebrating the holiday that began in 1966, honoring African-American culture. There are seven principles of Kwanzaa: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.

A news study shows that while elephants like the taste of booze, they are not actually getting drunk when eating marula fruit. The findings, published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology,Reuters

Hookah smoking, the latest alternative habit to cigarette smoking, is found to be more harmful users' health then originally thought. A new study in the November issue of the Journal of Periodontology finds hookah smoking is just as bad, and in some cases worse, than cigarette smoking for users' teeth.