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Agents are worried that the items may be increasing dehydration and leading to death in the baking hot brush country.Saturday, June 23, 2007

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SAN ANTONIO, TX (WOAI-AM) - U.S. Border Patrol agents say illegal immigrants are being given a potentially deadly cocktail of energy-generating items in hopes of speeding up their mad dash into the country, but agents are worried that the items may be increasing dehydration and leading to death in the baking hot brush country.

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Illegal immigrants are being given Red Bull energy drinks and ephedrine to give them a boost as they scurry across the U.S. border, according to a radio report.

Smugglers are reportedly giving immigrants what is known as a “triple stacker” — an ephedrine pill and aspirin, with a can of Red Bull to wash it all down, U.S. Border Patrol agents told WOAI news radio station in Texas.

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Woman charged after police search vanKENDALLVILLE ? A Wolcottville woman was arrested early today on a drug charge after police received information about possible drug activity involving a van.Jill A. Carmin, 43, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after police stopped a 2001 Dodge Caravan behind 221 S. Main St.Officers Glen Hurst and Chris Harlan with K-9 Lana searched the van before Carmin, a passenger, was charged.She was booked into the Noble County Jail with bond set at $3,50...

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The message came loud and clear through the television on one of those rare summer nights I wasn't in search of baseball."Feel like sneezing? Try this product with green tea added ... Hungry, but don't want to be? Use this, with green tea and hoodia ... Want to give your floors that like-new look? Try green tea-flavored Mopso ..."Green tea? What in the name of Oprah is this stuff?And hoodia? Is that like a hoodie for women, designed by those seeing collegiate softball players wearing visors inst...

Research provides enough science to pique one's interest in the product, but also provides plenty of reasons to wonder if this is yet another shortcut to health, much like oat bran was in the 1980s, anything labeled low cholesterol (not knowing if it were good or bad cholesterol) in the 1990s, or patent medicines were in the 1880s.According to the University of Maryland Medical Center's Web site, population-based studies indicate green tea can help...

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Geraldo Rivera has to have the biggest inferiority complex going, or he is deliberately trying to become the Al Sharpton of the Hispanic community. Any time a person speaks out on the enforcement of our immigration laws, he immediately brands the person speaking out as a racist particularly oriented against Hispanics; but watching him try to defend his position against a skilled opponent points out just how wrong he is.

Then he jumps to the defense of Paris Hilton, saying she's being picked on, how easy others get off and how it isn't as if she actually hurt someone. If he had his way, this girl would be an example of of what you can get away with if you are rich and famous, once again reinforcing the premise that the poor are losers and the rich winners.

As a person many young women would seek to emulate, wouldn't you think Hilton should be held to a higher standard? It's not as though 23 days in what amounts to a modified daycare center is going to warp her for life.

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