Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the protection offered a fetus by the so-called placental barrier, there is growing evidence that certain activities of a pregnant woman-smoking cigarettes, taking drugs, pursuing extreme diets-can seriously affect its wellbeing. Last week the Federal Government singled out a special danger. Citing evidence that "fetal alcohol syndrome" may be more widespread than had been supposed, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism warned pregnant women that consuming more than three ounces of pure alcohol-or perhaps as little as one ounce (two drinks)-a day could increase the risk of their giving birth...
...leave home: "If I was to die, I told myself, I did not wish to die with my first wife." He loved the time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought the '60s were what life was." The decade eventually took on sinister aspects. Mee had his misadventures with alcohol and speed; he ruefully describes his visit to a filthy rural California commune that had even contrived to have its own black slum: "a grotesque parody of the very worst of the world they had wished to escape...
Soft-core booze can be very profitable: a fifth of Cow-at 30 proof barely stronger than wine-can retail for $4. Americans still drink up 2.69 gallons of booze per capita annually and spend more than $30 billion a year on alcohol, but hard-liquor drinking appears to be declining. If yummy highs continue to be the vogue, liquor dealers' shelves should be loaded with creme de strawberry and tutti-frutti vodkas for some time to come...
Running is certain to be the best-researched sport in history, because so many researchers are running, but not much thought seems to have been given to running and alcohol. Most exercise books advise against mixing the two. but in terms suggesting that what is being purveyed is merely conventional wisdom. Not long ago Runner's World, the amiable and authoritative magazine subscribed to by just about all serious foot flappers, published an article alleging that alcohol has not hurt the performances of several distance runners. Frank Shorter, the Olympic gold medalist, is said to have swallowed...
...brashly accepted at Harvard, while pot and other drugs linger as whispers. One senior named Paul who admitted to using mescaline and acid monthly and who classified himself as a daily marijuana smoker said hotly, "This place is so hypocritical. They accept one of the most powerful drugs (alcohol) in plain open view but if I smoke a joint outside in the courtyard someone always glares at me. It's so hypocritical...