Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lake of Wine. Next week the Common Market agriculture ministers will meet to discuss ways of siphoning off the surplus wine that now threatens to engulf all Southern Europe. One solution is to distill it into alcohol for industrial purposes-an expensive process that would require unpopular subsidies by all Common Market nations. Another proposal: sell it to the Soviet Union, which is willing to buy up to 26.4 million gal. at rock-bottom prices. A third solution: give some of the excess to soldiers, hospital patients and inmates of old folks' homes. British Labor Party M.P. Neil Kinnock...
...Faisal went ahead and abolished slavery, opened schools for girls and introduced television to his kingdom. At the same time, he kept the Koran as the law of the land. Harsh penalties continued to be handed out to those who violated its proscriptions against adultery and the drinking of alcohol. Even today, public executions of murderers are occasionally carried out in the main public squares of Saudi Arabian cities...
...under a grant from N.I.N.D.S. The researchers studied 503 seriously ill or severely injured patients whose brains had apparently stopped functioning. In each case, the doctors determined whether this lack of brain activity was caused by a drastically lowered body temperature, by drugs (tranquilizers, heroin, or barbiturates mixed with alcohol can result in a flat EEG), or by injuries or ailments. They also tested the patient's ability to respond to various stimuli (most unconscious people, for example, will blink at a loud noise) and found out whether they could breathe unaided. When temperature and drugs had been ruled...
...Muslims as "spooky believing" for holding that Allah is a spirit. To them, Allah is the Supreme Black Man among a race of divine black men. The rituals and practices of the Nation of Islam, however, are Muslim indeed: prayer five times daily facing Mecca, abstinence from pork and alcohol, no gambling and a puritanical sex code...
...clear manifestation of the oil industry's desire to retain its control over the energy market is the publicity campaign it has waged against the introduction of methynol additives to gasoline. It has long been known that methynol--also known as wood alcohol--which can be derived from coal, natural gas, wood waste or recycled garbage, can be added to gasoline to stretch petroleum supplies and improve mileage. The widespread use of automobile fuel, composed of 70 per cent gasoline and 30 per cent methynol could eliminate American dependence on foreign oil supplies. But the oil industry claims that adding...