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- BRAZILIAN PANIC.
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- Brazilian girls have taken to hiding there hair inside shirts and
- blouses as the country is gripped by a hair-snipping panic, notes the
- Daily Telegraph, 19 Sept 1991.
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- Starting in the city of Belo Horizonte, the scare spread to Rio de
- Janeiro, and the police estimate that hundreds of long-haired girls
- have been "SCALPED". The authorites attribute the crimes to gangs of
- three or four youths working for local hairdressers, who pay up to 50
- per pound of hair used to make wigs or hair weaves.
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- One victim, journalism student Leila Pereira, said: "I crossed a
- square on my way to college when three men approached me. One suddenly
- held me from behind, another secured my head while the third pulled
- out a pair of scissors and cut off more than half my hair".
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- (COSMIC)
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