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28 News Briefs News Briefs 28 New Jersey Museum results are due to tannins and not other So Redelmeier and one of his New Jersey Museum Cursed By Death factors, primates have been spotted eating graduate students, football fan Craig Cursed By Death other natural medicinal products in the Stewart, reviewed accident data from the jungle. U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety PATERSON, N.J. (Wireless Flash) -- "Some 39 species have been Administration from 1975 through 2001 Celebrities are dying for their art at the observed eating soil, which soaks up for the Sundays when the Super Bowl Paterson Museum in New Jersey -- toxins in the gut and allows the animals to was played, as well as the previous and unintentionally. eat poisonous plants without getting subsequent Sundays. For some strange reason, sick," according to the magazine. Compared with the adjacent Sundays, celebrities who exhibit their art at the Chimpanzees also swallow leaves when weather and other conditions would museum have been dying soon after, such whole to induce diarrhea to get rid of presumably be the same, there was about as caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, who died tapeworms and other parasites. [End] a 41 percent increase in fatal accidents in recently at the age of 99. the four hours or more after the game and Other celebs who died while on Car crashes spike after about a 46 percent increase in nonfatal Car crashes spike after display at the Paterson include Dee Dee Super Bowl accidents. Super Bowl Ramone, John Entwistle, William S. “That 41 percent relative increase is Burroughs, Richard Harris and Anthony larger than the New Year’s Eve increase Quinn. Study shows wrecks surge most in in the United States,” Redelmeier said. There's a good chance the legend losing team’s city Redelmeier said the average number of the Paterson curse will grow: The of people killed in crashes after the Super museum is currently featuring paintings Associated Press Bowl was 24, up from 17 on the by 94-year-old Buddy Ebsen, 85-year-old comparison Sundays. Likewise, the Phyllis Diller and 81-year-old Charles Jan. 22 — Automobile crashes climb number of people injured jumped to Bronson. more than 40 percent in the hours after 1,900 from 1,300, and the number of Still, Paterson Museum spokesman the Super Bowl, with the surge highest in crashes topped 4,000, up from nearly Giacomo De Stefano refuses to consider the losing team’s territory, perhaps 3,000. the deaths as anything more than because heartbroken fans are not In states with the losing team, the coincidence. In his words, "You exhibit concentrating on their driving, number of crashes increased 68 percent any artist's paintings long enough and researchers say. after the telecast ended, while accidents they're eventually going to die." IN THE FIRST STUDY to rose only 6 percent in the winner’s state. In fact, the museum plans to quantify the problem, researchers at the Accidents climbed 46 percent in the further tempt the grim reaper in the near- University of Toronto examined U.S. “neutral” states. future by exhibiting the art of 88-year-old accident data from the last 27 Super “It’s clear that even the alcohol- Eli Wallach and 80-year-old Kurt Bowls. negative people here have a reaction to it Vonnegut. [End] They found that both fatal and being the Super Bowl,” said Stephanie nonfatal crashes increase after the Faul, spokeswoman for the AAA Jungle Remedy Eases football game, causing an average of Foundation for Traffic Safety. “If you’re Jungle Remedy Eases Perils of Primate seven additional deaths and 600 extra replaying things in your head, you’re not Perils of Primate paying attention” to driving. Pregnancy injuries. The researchers theorized that A surge in deaths was seen in 21 of Pregnancy drinking during the game, driver fatigue the 27 years studied, and was largest in LONDON (Reuters) - Never because of the late hour, and distraction the first hour after the telecast ended. underestimate the intelligence of and disappointment among drivers whose There was no shift in the rate of accidents primates. team lost all contribute to the rise in before the kickoff, but a slight decrease In what scientists believe may be accidents. during the game. the first example of an animal taking a “We think that it may be alcohol Redelmeier said drivers ought to pay natural drug during pregnancy, and fatigue and inattention, and in more attention or avoid unnecessary researchers from Japan's Kyoto particular the sort of what-if conjectures driving on Super Bowl Sundays, and University have noticed that the sifaka, a and Monday morning quarterbacking that trauma centers ought to bring in extra type of lemur, eats plants containing occurs” after the loss, said Dr. Donald A. staff for the big game. poisonous tannins before giving birth. Redelmeier, a professor of medicine who Faul said Super Bowl fans who Small amounts of tannins are also works at Canada’s largest trauma drink should plan ahead and use a known to stimulate milk production and center. designated driver or take a cab or public veterinarians use them to prevent The study was reported Thursday in transportation. miscarriage. the New England Journal of Medicine. If your team loses, “instead of saying, "This makes them the first animal Redelmeier said he patched up some ‘Yuck’ and going home, hang out a little known to self-medicate when pregnant," accident victims on Super Bowl Sundays bit and talk about it with your buds,” she according to New Scientist magazine. while finishing his medical training at a said. “Get it out of your system and sober Michael Huffman, a primate expert California hospital in the 1980s. up” before driving home. at the university, said pregnant females “After the game was over, things $19.99 a month will get you 2,000Mb of observed in Madagascar ate more tannin- became extremely hectic,” said storage, 10Gb transfer (a month), unlimited rich plants than other males or females. Redelmeier, who focuses his research on e-mail addresses, auto responders and Although he can't be sure that the traffic safety. much more! www.rel-mar.com