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...best way to stop so-called "binge drinking" is to lower the drinking age to 18, if not 16, and fight to abolish the evil reputation that alcoholic beverages have among clueless portions of the population. It is high time that we overcome the repressive puritanical heritage of this nation and begin to make people responsible for their own choices. The government's policy towards alcoholic beverages has been consistently inadapted, reaching peaks of idiocy with the prohibition and continuing today with age restrictions. I can only hope that one day the United States will have the maturity to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kill 'Puritanical' Drinking Age | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...more ridiculous terms the safety groups came up with and throw around quite often is the "Montanabahn." While Montana did abolish the speed limit (used signs, anyone?), it hardly merits comparisons to the Autobahn...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Get Your Motor Running... | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

...then, suddenly, he pulls you inside, through the looking glass, and you are left in awe at the intensity of this seemingly quiet vision, its power to enclose you in its fictions. Unless, presumably, you are up there on Capitol Hill, talking about how you can abolish the deficit by funding B-2 bombers and closing down Vermeer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: DUTCH TREAT | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

Moreover, often those who try to overthrow the system are taking advantage of values that they themselves will abolish as soon as they get to power. Hitler, for example, used freedom of speech and democracy to overthrow freedom of speech and democracy. One can only imagine what measures the extreme groups in Israel and the United States would take if they were to seize power...

Author: By Tal D. Ben-shachar, | Title: Freedom to Limit Freedom | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

DIED. RAYMOND W. HOECKER, 82, onetime U.S. agriculture official; in Springfield, Missouri. In 1968 Hoecker came up with the idea of encoding product information in a scannable symbol. Today the familiar stripes of the Universal Price Code have helped abolish the tedium of waiting for slow cashiers to ring up purchases, replacing it with the more modern tedium of waiting for balky scanners to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 13, 1995 | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

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