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...nearly every respect, offering an entirely un-unique mixture of mediocre menu items and overpriced libations. But the Pub manages to do great business, as it is known to youthful denizens of Manhattan’s Upper West Side as one of all too few establishments that will serve alcohol to anyone tall enough to get their head over the counter. The many Columbia undergrads who frequent the Pub still have what we have lost: an FDE. (Free Drinking Establishment, not to be confused with...
...singer and guitarist for the proudly unhip 1980s pop band Big Country; after hanging himself in a Honolulu hotel room. Born in the tiny Scottish mining town of Dunfermline--where he maintained homes despite pleas from his record company to relocate to London--Adamson had long battled depression and alcohol addiction...
...something amazing happened during those harrowing 24 hours. Sincock began to go through the grieving process, but far more quickly than others. At around 1 p.m., when his own world seemed bleakest, a friend with an alcohol problem tapped him on the shoulder and said he was ready to give up sobriety. Sincock took him aside and told him not to worry, that things would eventually work out. "When I began to help him, I got outside of myself for a few minutes, and the worry and despair was gone," says Sincock. He discovered in himself a compassion he never...
BOMBED Doctors used to think the main drawbacks of naltrexone, one of two drugs prescribed for alcoholism, were that it was expensive (about $1,000 a year) and had to be taken every day. Now a new study suggests it may not even work--at least for male veterans who have had a drinking problem for 20 years or more. For study participants who fit that description, naltrexone was no better than a placebo in reducing alcohol consumption...
...many of Europe's 12.5 million Muslims, now is the time to redefine Islam in the context of their identities as believers who were born and bred in Europe. The result is a kind of Euro-Islam, the traditional Koran-based religion with its prohibitions against alcohol and interest-bearing loans now indelibly marked by the "Western" values of tolerance, democracy and civil liberties. This new vision could well end up influencing the world these young Europeans' grandparents left behind...