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BERLIN, GERMANY - A German man drank too much, wet his bed and set fire to his apartment while trying to dry his bedding, police in the western town of Muelheim said on Monday. ?He was too drunk to go to the toilet,? said a police spokesman. ?The next morning he put a switched-on hair dryer on the bed to dry it and left the apartment.? When the 60-year-old returned, his home and belongings were in flames.

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The couple initially told police they had been giving their daughter a bottle filled with a mixture of alcohol and water to help her sleep. According to a police report, the autopsy showed the child had been fed fatal doses of alcohol shortly before her death and her liver indicated severe buildup of excess fat due to alcohol consumption. Former Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Ronald Wright said that for a baby to ingest enough alcohol to reach 0.47. or nearly six times the adult legal limit. It was equivalent to a 160-pound adult drinking 18 beers.

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PHILADELPHIA  ? A 2-year-old boy was removed from his family and his mother could face charges after the child handed his daycare teacher two packets of crack cocaine, and a search of his jacket pocket turned up nine more, police said. The boy's mother was taken in for questioning when she came to pick him up at the end of the day Friday. Police said she could be charged with endangering the welfare of children. The toddler talked about the drugs, but it wasn't clear how much he understood. According to police, he said he took the packets off a table at home. "I don't consider any 2-year-old really having a clear sense of what they had in their possession," said Capt. John Darby of the Special Victims Unit. A police search of the home, where the boy lives with his mother, 5-year-old sister and at least one other adult, yielded a pound of marijuana and a small amount of crack cocaine, Darby said. The toddler and his sister were placed with the city family-services unit.

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Alcohol's health benefits doubted Any heart gains from drinking alcohol in moderation are likely outweighed by the harm, say researchers. The findings in The Lancet suggest that drinking a glass or two of wine a day may not be such a good idea. Although past research suggests some heart benefits, the New Zealand team says the studies were flawed. Indeed, there is more evidence that heavier drinking provides the most heart protection - alcoholics have relatively 'clean' arteries - they say. However, in this instance the other health risks definitely outweigh the benefits. Lead researcher Dr Rod Jackson, from the University of Auckland, and his team said: "Any coronary protection from light to moderate drinking will be very small and unlikely to outweigh the harms. "While moderate to heavy drinking is probably coronary-protective, any benefit will be overwhelmed by the known harms. "If so, the public health message is clear. Do not assume there is a window in which the health benefits of alcohol are greater than the harms - there is probably no free lunch." Various studies published in the 1970s and 1980s suggested alcohol, in moderation, could be good for the heart. 'Festive tipple is OK' These early observations were confirmed by pooling together of findings from different studies, which suggested a 20% to 25% reduction in heart disease risk linked to light drinking. But Dr Jackson's team said that the way the studies were carried out did not allow the researchers to be able to say with certainty that the findings could not due to other factors rather than solely the amount of alcohol consumed. Belinda Linden, head of medical information at the British Heart Foundation said: "This suggests that light to moderate alcohol consumption may only give a small amount of protection against coronary heart disease, while the benefits of moderate to heavy drinking are likely to be outweighed by the overall harm that alcohol can also cause. "The good news is that people can still enjoy alcohol in moderation, especially during the festive period. There is no evidence to suggest that light to moderate alcohol consumption will actually harm the heart. However over indulging can have an adverse effect on your health. "We should not encourage people to start drinking specifically to protect their heart, as there are much safer options. "Our advice remains the same - the best way to reduce the risk of heart disease is to quit smoking if you smoke, increase levels of physical activity and eat a healthy balanced diet."

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ST. PARIS, Ohio (about 50 miles northeast of Dayton) ? Steven Zorn had put the pen gun to his head and clicked before, apparently thinking it was jammed and would not work. But on the third try, the tiny silver pistol went off as the 22-year-old budding rap artist was drinking to celebrate an impending record deal. He died at a hospital.