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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (190702)	3/14/2009 7:07:08 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Keep spending,.. with what, many will ask. Even with $trillions tarped out there´s no guarantee for anyone - jobs, credit card lines, new auto loans or home equity lines. Everybody who has not at least $100k set aside for rainy days (and no debt) is living on a thread. And you´re right: Happiness is what people drives most. But with the daily food fight?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (190702)	3/14/2009 9:20:15 PM
From: sspads	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Drinking Kool Aid has taken a whole new meaning did you read this Windshield wiper fluid mistaken for Kool Aid cbc.ca Arkansas Ten children drank windshield wiper fluid after a staff member at an Arkansas daycare mistakenly put the liquid in a refrigerator thinking it was Kool-Aid and it was later served, hospital officials said Friday. Doctors estimate the children, ages two to seven, each drank about 30 millilitres of the fluid late Thursday afternoon before realizing it tasted wrong, said Laura James, a pediatric pharmacologist and toxicologist at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock. Only one child remained hospitalized Friday morning, after blood samples showed "measurable levels" of methanol, a highly toxic alcohol that can induce comas and cause blindness, officials said. "All we know was that the individual at the daycare had recently shopped and had come back to the daycare with a lot of different products," James said. "This product was mistakenly grabbed and thought to be Kool-Aid and put in the refrigerator." Neither James nor officials at the state Department of Human Service could immediately name the daycare in the community of Scott, about 25 kilometres east of Little Rock. Lab tests done on wiper fluid Human Services spokeswoman Julie Munsell said investigators planned to visit the daycare Friday. "It has not been reported to us yet," Munsell said Friday morning. "Either it happened and they didn't report as they should have ... or it happened after business hours." The children were examined by doctors at the hospital and the daycare provided a sample of the windshield wiper fluid for laboratory testing, James said. The toxicologist warned that many antifreeze or windshield wiper solutions have bright colours, which children can mistake for fruit drinks. "I think the take-home message is not to have these products in the kitchen or where you're doing any kind of food preparation," she said.