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...legal drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 in many states in the 1970s and then raised again nationally through the 1984 Minimum Purchase Age Act-two significant policy shifts that have enabled scientists to contrast effects on alcohol-related deaths. During the ensuing years, dozens of studies have been conducted by epidemiologists, economists, and public health and traffic safety experts. Almost all have found that the Age-21 law saves lives—an estimated 900 nationally each year...
...Crimson editors set one recent study against the great mass of evidence supporting the Age-21 law, and conclude that the status of knowledge is “murky.” I fear what their editorials will say about global warming and evolution...
...editors ignore the potential impact of lowering the minimum legal drinking age on high school and middle school students. Drinking has decreased among that group in the past several decades. Reducing the age to 18 may offset this trend by bringing legal alcohol into high schools...
College students have not reached their high rates of binge drinking by themselves. Low prices, heavy advertising, and aggressive marketing campaigns by the alcohol industry have played a strong part. An Age-18 law will make 18 year olds the new legal target...
Kennedy School Professor Samantha Power has travelled the globe interviewing the victims, culprits, and arbitrators of human rights atoricities. Yet, she found the inspiration for her Pultizer Prize-winning work,“A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” right here in Cambridge. With the encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held...