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Japanese researchers trained goldfish to react when a certain
piece of music was played. The fish did so correctly 75 percent of the time. (Photo: Reuters)


Goldfish Survives without Oxygen

Goldfish Survives without Oxygen

London- Unlike most vertebrates which die within a few minutes without oxygen, goldfish is able to survive for months in oxygen-free water. Scientists have recently figured out how goldfish produce alcohol to survive when trapped beneath the icy surfaces of frozen...
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In this Saturday, July 26, 1997 file photo, an Egyptian worker inspects a bottle of Stella beer rolling down the line at a factory in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)


Egypt Alcohol Case Stirs Controversy

Egypt Alcohol Case Stirs Controversy

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—An Egyptian judge ordered a man to receive 80 lashes in punishment for being drunk, in the first judicial decision of its kind in the modern Egyptian era, raising a storm of controversy. A well-informed judicial source informed Asharq Al-Awsat...