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Rather than make arrests when crowds turn out of saloons, police find that handing out candy bars calms drinkers, satiates their hunger, and generally makes it easier for the drunks to get home safely. Watanabe's earlier work had established that when a spider in a laboratory case satiates itself with two fruit flies a day, it builds its daily web with linear instead of spiral decorations. The fruit ``often satiates them before the candy bar is unwrapped,'' she said. |
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