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What's in the Water?

Ronald Bailey | 8.9.2005 2:26 PM

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Scientists discover in an unusual way that cocaine using Italians may not be telling the truth about how much they snort. Will we soon see DEA agents in hip boots at a sewage plant near you?

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Ronald Bailey is science correspondent at Reason.

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