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...reaction to the young age of soldiers in fighting Vietnam, many states lowered the MLDA and allowed 18-year-olds to drink during the 1970s. By 1984, however, the federal government compelled states to reset the MLDA to 21 in response to the obvious reality of the time: Quite simply, lower MLDAs have failed in practice...
...Teenagers have also been safer since 21 became the MLDA. The government estimates that the higher age saves up to 1,000 lives a year from drunk-driving accidents. During the 1970s, states that changed their drinking ages to 18 or 19 reported spikes in the frequency of alcohol-related crashes and fatalities. Likewise, New Zealand, which recently lowered its MLDA to 18, was rewarded with 12 percent more crashes involving alcohol among 18-to-19-year-olds and 14 percent more among 15- to-17-year-olds...
...Retired Massachusetts high school teacher Ann Marie Gagne recounted witnessing the proliferation of alcohol first-hand in the 1970s. The situation deteriorated to the point that one high-school senior “showed up for school so drunk that he couldn’t get out of his car.” Clearly, teenagers tipple for reasons other than alcohol’s illicit appeal. Although at times it might seem that underage drinking is so prevalent that the drinking age is irrelevant, in practice a higher MLDA does play a role in prevention...
...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finally getting around to tackling a problem that has irked discerning car buyers for decades. Since the 1970s, any new car or truck sold in the U.S. has been required to carry a label that details both the price and the estimated mileage the vehicle will get in city and highway driving. Consumers and environmentalists, however, have criticized the practice, saying the mileage figures on the EPA sticker don't bear any resemblance to the mileage motorists actually achieve in real-world driving...
...level of pent-up outrage at home and abroad. In the most bizarre case, British authorities arrested Pinochet in London in 1998 on an arrest warrant issued from Spain - where prosecutors wanted to try him for allegedly ordering the execution of leftist Spaniards living in Chile in the 1970s. He was eventually released back to Chile, but he spent his last years in a virtual prison of legal assaults and deteriorating health. In October a Chilean judge ordered Pinochet under house arrest on charges related to human rights atrocities at Villa Grimaldi, a detention center outside Santiago run by Pinochet...