Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Agent Horan found herself in Nairobi last week presiding over a makeshift command center in the partly wrecked railway station bus park across from the embassy. Her task: to supervise 215 FBI agents in both capitals, along with explosives experts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as they sort through concrete rubble, twisted metal, bits of glass--every scrap of debris that could yield the vital physical evidence that might identify who was responsible for the senseless violence...
...week, citing a surprise urine test, the international governing organization for swimmers, FINA, banned De Bruin for four years, effectively ending her career. The tests found no steroids but did detect "unequivocal signs of adulteration" that would mask the drugs, by means of an after-the-fact addition of alcohol, probably whisky. De Bruin, promising "I'm not going to crawl under a stone," said she would sue FINA and appeal. Many doubt she will prevail. Says five-time U.S. Olympic coach Mark Schubert: "Experienced people know the telltale signs of doing illegal things to get fast...
...institution want to make it veryclear that we prohibit the use of alcohol by thosewho are under legal age and we discourage the useof alcohol in general," Huppe said...
...Saturday night I found myself watching The Capital Gang on CNN. I was like, 'Oh my God! What is going on, and who have I become?'" Anyone who's ever read a tabloid knows how Drew--granddaughter of acting legend John Barrymore--bounced back from prepubescent drug and alcohol problems to become a sober-but-still-free-spirited teenage wild child. She doesn't regret much, certainly not baring her breasts to David Letterman or showing off her butterfly tattoos in Playboy. "When I'm 40, I'm going to get the biggest kick out of looking at that...
...number of students, families and community members raised concerns about alcohol's prevalence in MIT's residential life this year...