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'hair map' detailing what you eat, drink  Ned Rozell Courtesy
Ned Rozell  Sprouting from your head at the rate of more than
three inches a year, hair records the things you eat and drink
and where you ate and drank them. An Ottawa-based researcher has
just assembled a countrywide database of Canadians’ hair
designed to help the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  With a
likeable partner who had a talent for persuading strangers to
part with a snip of hair, Michelle Chartrand for the past four
years traveled around Canada in rental cars, putting on enough
miles to circle the world. From the Atlantic coast to Fort St.
John on the Alaska Highway, the University of Ottawa researcher
and her assistant, Jonathan Mayo, gathered more than 500
samples. With them, they are creating a hair map of Canada that
they hope will help detectives learn more about unknown murder
victims and other mystery bodies that turn up on the landscape.
As it grows, hair captures