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Ethanol, which is little more than alcohol distilled from fermented corn mash, had been a curiosity for the past century before hitting the Green Revolution's radar a few years ago, when it was added to the U.S. gasoline supply with the goal of reducing vehicle emissions. In January, when oil was passing the $55-per-bbl. mark, the President called for the production of 35 billion gal. of renewable fuels annually by 2017, which would reduce U.S. gas consumption 20%. The Energy Act of 2005 mandated a market for ethanol by asking refiners to churn out 7.5 billion...
...upon hearing that he's a water sommelier--Mascha immediately tried to disarm me. He told me about his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, where he specialized in food anthropology. And about how he was a wine collector until he found out in 2002 that he had an alcohol allergy that could stop his heart, at which point he transferred his interest to water. I felt sorry but unmoved. Just because being married means staying home and watching TV on Saturdays doesn't mean there are good shows on Saturdays...
...College Benedict H. Gross ’71 personally responsible. That is, if you can prove that he is, indeed, Dean of the College. But Dean Gross doesn’t exactly have the same ability as a random undergraduate to shrug responsibility under Harvard’s new alcohol policy and deny having a leadership position in a social club...
While drinking at Harvard often verges on the “hardcore,” few students would intentionally drink themselves into a 0.4 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and an emergency intubation. The policy, however, rides on the principal finding of the Committee on Social Clubs—a body established by Dean Gross—that declares “undergraduates view excessive drinking…as an accepted feature of college life, and do not appreciate the very real risks that this kind of behavior entails...
...opportunity to stop and think about what has been happening to me; there was always work to be done, something to get to, someone to see. Even over the past week, after all academic obligations had evaporated, the partying and debauchery of senior week was simply an alcohol-enhanced version of the same crazy, energetic state of affairs that seemed to have been the norm over the past four years. As Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 mentioned in the Class of 2007 yearbook, everything here, especially from an undergraduate’s perspective...