At Amateur Bullfights in Colombia, Alcohol and Blood Flow Freely
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Participants can seem like figures in a Hieronymus Bosch painting: intestines peeking out of bellies, bones protruding from fractured shins, blood spurting from gashes in the flesh.
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MIAMI -- One evening last week, two roosters in a ring surrounded by cheering spectators pecked and clawed one another in a fight to the death. With each lunge, feathers flew, then floated to the ground. Finally, one bloodied bird, its eyes plucked out, lurched and faltered.
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Tough love is turning tender at  rehab clinics where gourmet food and whale watching are often  replacing bed making and group therapy as part of the treatment  for addictions to drink and drugs.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria  - Incredulous doctors made five blood tests on a drunken man to confirm he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.914, far above the usual life-threatening range, police and doctors said Tuesday.
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Brazil is cracking down on the drug gangs, prompting many a shootout in the poorer districts, known as favelas. The Guardian spent a day with a Rio photographer who risks his life almost daily to cover the battle
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Soldiers swarmed onto a farm Monday and captured one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers hiding in bushes in his underwear. Colombian officials called it their biggest drug war victory since the 1993 slaying of Medellin cartel leader Pablo Escobar.
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A gunfight broke out in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded, authorities said Sunday.
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TIBU, Colombia -- After nearly 10 years of fighting anti-government rebels, Julio Cesar Arce strode onto a muddy field one recent day and joined 1,400 fellow paramilitary fighters in a ceremony marking the largest voluntary disarmament in his country's violent history.
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Less Rohypnol, more Red Bull and vodka Researchers at Wrexham Maelor Hospital who tested wobbly hospital patients who claimed their drinks had been spiked found most were simply legless, the BBC reports.â¦
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NEW YORK  - The idea that light to moderate  alcohol drinking protects against heart disease has become  entrenched, but findings from a new study challenge this.
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EL MIRADOR, Colombia -- The latest shift in Colombia's war on drugs is evident on a green hilltop in this town, as weather-beaten men in gray jumpsuits -- government-paid eradicators -- use hoes and muscle to rip out bushes of coca. Policemen carrying M-16 assault rifles and land-mine detectors...
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From Friday's potato-chip-fueled euphoria to Sunday's rain-soaked fistfights.
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Lab experiments show that cells that line the mouth become more susceptible to infection with HIV when they&#39;re exposed to alcohol.
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University of Mississippi researchers have determined in a animal embryo model alcohol use fuels the growth of cancerous tumors. For almost a hundred years mounting evidence has linked alcohol use to an increased
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Colombia, locked in a 40-year war fueled by the drug trade, has made gains in restoring order and economic growth but needs more international help to secure
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NEW YORK - Fruit-infused water and Gatorade - not vodka and whiskey - were the inhalants offered at the Manhattan debut of a controversial new device that lets drinkers take vaporized shots of alcohol, and opponents want to make sure the machines stay liquor-free.    The machine, the Alcohol Without Liquid vaporizer, or AWOL, lets its users inhale liquor by mixing it with pressurized oxygen...
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Cut men tend to the wounds of mixed martial arts fighters, who combine elements of boxing, wrestling, karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu in one of the countryâs fastest-growing sports.