Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recently, a bill was introduced to the Illinois state legislature that would curb services that sell liquor through the Internet. Says Rep. Angelo Saviano: "Many kids as young as 16 have debit cards with their checking accounts...Children are able to order alcohol through the Internet or a catalog and it's delivered right to their doorstep." To prevent this horrible crime, the bill would require consumers to prove they are at least 21 before receiving the alcohol...
Does the Illinois legislature actually think that a 16 year-old would go through the trouble of ordering (expensive) alcohol from http://www.BuyBooze.com, and then spend the next week waiting by his mailbox so that his parents won't find it first? No one's that stupid. Most minors would rather take their chances with "cops-in-shops...
Interspersing short, original pieces with information on FAS, the performers assembled a show that demonstrated both the brutal effects of alcohol on an unborn fetus as well as FAS's relevance to their own communities...
...Wakanyeja," a Lakota Sioux expression signifying "children are sacred," was both the title and the message of a youth performance on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) at Longfellow Hall yesterday evening...
...event, co-sponsored by the Harvard Education Forum and the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), brought to the University a troupe of 10 young, Ogallala Sioux actors, aged 13 to 15, who came to preach the dangers of alcohol consumption during pregnancy...