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St. Louis Public Radio on NPR
3:45 pm
Tue February 21, 2012

Cheers! Fruit flies drink to their health, literally

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Fruit flies will drink alcohol from fermenting fruit to kill off wasp parasites that can grow inside of them.
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By Veronique LaCapra

Originally published on Tue February 21, 2012 1:54 pm

As humans, we sometimes pay a price for drinking alcohol — in hangovers, or worse. But if you happen to be a young fruit fly, it turns out that alcohol can be just what the doctor ordered.

The pesky little fruit flies often show up when apples or bananas are left sitting around for too long on the kitchen counter. Most folks find them annoying, but Todd Schlenke can't get enough of them.

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St. Lous Public Radio on NPR
6:07 pm
Tue February 7, 2012

'Shake-And-Bake' meth causes uptick in burn victims

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Dennis Potter, 29, was burned in a shake-and-bake meth lab explosion in December 2009. He spent the next five weeks wrapped in bandages and underwent numerous skin graft operations over the course of his recovery.
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The Franklin County Sheriff's Department methamphetamine training lab contains everything needed to make the illegal drug methamphetamine using the shake-and-bake method.
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Originally published on Mon March 18, 2013 9:35 am

Dennis Potter says he started doing meth when he was 16. Two years later, he learned how to make it.

"It's so easy," he says. "Any person can do it. You can go to Walgreens, Home Depot and Wal-Mart, and they sell every bit of the ingredients."

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