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...offer. The city's mosques are packed, including the huge King Fahd Mosque and cultural center, which Saudi Arabia built in 2000 - at a cost of about $12 million - and still maintains. And in April, investors from the Gulf opened a $55 million upmarket shopping center, which bans alcohol and gambling and has a worship room. "We spent the morning shopping, and prayed together there," says Husic the day I share coffee with her and her friends...
...Tour, my funniness ranking went up without my having to do anything. Beck, after all, is known for ranting, and sometimes crying, to a massive audience about how our country is approaching the End of Days. This is less the stuff of comedy than the stuff the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives likes to keep tabs...
...findings underscore that 'nurture' can influence 'nature' during adolescence, a pivotal time when delaying the start of alcohol consumption and other risky behaviors can have a significant impact on healthy child development," said Kenneth R. Warren, acting director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, in a statement...
What's the proper way to drink whiskey? One, you have to have some measure of water, whether it's just a capful or a one-to-one ratio. It lessens the alcohol and brings out the flavors. Every whiskey professional that I've been in contact with added some measure of water. People who just drink it straight are showing off that they can drink alcohol straight. And remember: getting drunk dulls the senses, so if you want to taste whiskey, getting drunk is not the way to do it. It's certainly a nice side effect, though...
...government subsidies it would take to expand coverage to the 47 million or so Americans who now lack it? Lawmakers are reluctant to squeeze Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals and doctors much more than they already have. And while there's talk of new taxes on cigarettes and alcohol - even junk food and soda - they are not likely to bring in anything close to the $1.5 trillion that outside experts say it could cost over the next decade to bring about universal coverage...