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...biggest games, though, are still AIDS fundraisers. Once a month, people pack the 800-seat Durham Armory in North Carolina for family-friendly, alcohol-free drag bingo nights led by BVD (bingo-verifying diva) Mary K. Mart. The crowd is about half gay and half straight, and on a typical night, $10,000 is raised for the Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina. In 2002, when the Alliance ran its first game, "we thought that if we got a hundred people and a thousand dollars, it would be a miracle," says John Paul Womble, director of development. The event sold...
...viable contestants. The session calls for men and women aged 21 to 30. “If we found someone 18 or over who’s amazing,” Gorovelich said, “we might let them in.” As alcohol is consumed on the show, such a contestant would have to be barred from certain activities, Gorovelich explained. The open casting call will be held on May 12 at the Felt Nightclub on 533 Washington Street. —Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can he reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors (DAPAs), sporting trendy new baby blue hoodies, rewarded participants with a new Nalgene adorned with Harvard drinking statistics on the back...
...central bank. Every day the papers carry a report of an AKP official in some town doing something outlandish - men and women being segregated at a municipal event, a swimming pool banning women from entering with their young sons (because they are male), bars being closed down to discourage alcohol consumption...
...life expectancy for Japanese men is 78.56 years, the fourth-longest in the world. But Mitsuru Okamura sped past that age long ago, and if you listen he'll tell you his secret: alcohol. "I enjoy drinking," says Okamura, who still has the posture of the middle school principal he once was. "Shochu, whatever. If it's alcoholic, I'll drink it." It appears to be working: At 90, the bantam-sized Okamura is still fit for his age and trim everywhere but in the ear lobes. While the other residents in the Yairo-en Special Nursing Home's gleaming...