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Big herbivorous dinosaurs ate crustaceans as side dish
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Can gardening prevent cancer? 麻豆免费版下载study seeks to find out
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Expert goes behind bars to study gang life
Assistant Professor David Pyrooz has interviewed hundreds of gang members, searching for insight into how some manage to avoid or escape what he calls "the snare" of gang life, while others succumb to it.听His research comes at a time when 33,000 violent gangs with 1.4 million members are active in the U.S.