Posted July 28, 2009 
Comments(1) The food dye that gives blue M&M’s their colour can help mend spinal injuries, researchers say.
The compound Brilliant Blue G blocks a chemical that kills healthy spinal cord cells around the damaged area – an event that often causes more irreversible damage than the original injury.
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Posted July 28, 2009 Comments(0) Two Swedes expecting the golden beaches of the Italian island of Capri got a shock when tourist officials told them they were 650 km (400 miles) off course in the northern town of Carpi, after mistyping the name in their GPS.
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Posted July 28, 2009 Comments(0) Divorce has a lingering, detrimental impact on health that even remarriage cannot fully repair, a study suggests.
A Chicago study involving 8,652 people aged 51 to 61 found divorced people have 20% more chronic illnesses such as cancer than those who never marry.
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Posted July 28, 2009 Comments(0) SWANSEA, Wales, July 27 (UPI) — After stealing about $1,154 in liquor, two burglars decided to celebrate and got so drunk they fell asleep instead of escaping, police in Swansea, Wales, said.
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Posted July 27, 2009 Comments(0) PATNA, India (Reuters) – Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
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Posted July 27, 2009 Comments(1) BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – State troopers say a man was arrested Sunday morning after allegedly driving drunk to a state trooper station, mistaking it for a hotel.
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