31.   Nine people have died and hundreds fallen ill after eating poisonous mushrooms, health officials said Thursday.

32.   Several centuries ago in Siberia, Hudler writes, an explorer discovered that native tribespeople enlivened life in a harsh land by eating hallucinogenic mushrooms.

33.   Sixteen people in the province have already died from eating poisonous mushrooms.

34.   Two children and a man died over the past two days in western Ukraine after eating poisonous mushrooms, an official said Friday.

35.   Three children died Friday in the central Ukrainian town of Petrovo after eating poisonous mushrooms, an emergency official said.

36.   Two people died after eating poisonous mushrooms in central Russia, part of a recurring problem in the summer when Russians flock to the woods.

37.   Chun ate boiled mushrooms, shredded beef cooked in soy sauce and rice porridge, doctors at the Police Hospital said.