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Briefs
Inmates
in 58 county jails across New York are getting playing cards
with the pictures of missing persons in hopes the photos will
jog memories and help solve cold cases.
Under a state Senate
pilot program, 7,200 decks of cards are being sent to the
jails. They include telephone numbers of tip lines that offer
rewards to anyone -- including prisoners -- who provide information
about the crimes.
The cards
were paid for with a $10,000 grant from Republican Senate
Majority Leader Joseph Bruno from funds he controls. "This
program seeks to go right to the source of crime, providing
incarcerated criminals information via playing cards who,
in turn, may have credible information or leads that help
solve these crimes," Bruno said in a statement
A spokesman
for Bruno said a similar scheme in Florida prisons had resulted
in leads that helped close old cases.(Reuters)
And finally....
For the first time in Chile, a mayor plans to give out free
Viagra to men 60 and older in his town to improve their "quality
of life" four times a month, according to media reports
(AFP).
"This
has to do with quality of life and it's done responsibly.
It's not just like handing out candy at the corner,"
Gonzalo Navarrete, a physician and mayor of the poor town
of Lo Prado south of Santiago, told Las Ultimas Noticias daily.
He said
any man 60 years and older who wants it can have up to four
Viagra pills a month after undergoing a thorough medical exam
to avoid potentially harmful side effects of the drug Sildenafil.
"We'll give out four, 50 milligram pills, in other words,
for four sexual relationships per month," Navarrete said,
adding that the program would have a starting cost of about
20,000 dollars.
The mayor
said the idea for his unprecedented move came from hearing
older men in his town complain about not getting enough sex.
He did have some advice, however, for the Viagra seekers:
"Sildenafil doesn't get you going without direct stimulation."
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