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...professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found that nearly half (45%) of the 201 HIV-positive men surveyed were high-risk transmitters: among them, the most likely to transmit HIV to partners were young men who drank heavily (more than five glasses of alcohol a day at least once in the past six months), were diagnosed with HIV within the past nine years and reported using methamphetamine. Three-quarters of the surveyed men were Caucasian, half had graduated from college, and only half had a detectable HIV viral load. "Many young and recently diagnosed...
...over the past five years, premium sakes now appear alongside wine on drinks menus at high-end restaurants like New York City's wd-50. "Over the past five years, foreigners have really begun to appreciate sake," says Matsutaro Fukumitsu, the 13th generation of his family to produce Fukumitsuya alcohol. "Japanese food is seen as healthy, and sake has ridden that trend...
...Australian delegation's Wesley Enoch, an award-winning theater director (Stolen, Riverland), preservation must always go hand in hand with progress. The delegation he selected for the festival - from Freshwater, a women's a capella group who seek to reclaim languages through song, to Doonooch, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation group using traditional dance - reflect his theme of "Welcoming the New Day." "In Indigenous Australia there's a whole lot of contemporary manifestations of culture that we want to look at," Enoch says. "It's not just about cultural maintenance but about cultural evolution...
...Since Ivins' death, his attorney, Paul Kemp, has repeatedly said he was innocent. He says Ivins cooperated fully with the FBI during two dozen interviews and passed at least two lie-detector tests. Kemp claims the FBI harassed his client for months, driving him into a spiral of alcohol and depression. Certainly, Ivins' last months were tortured. He was twice hospitalized for depression, once after one of his counselors said he had threatened to kill his co-workers. By then law-enforcement officials had searched his home, his computers, his cars, his safe-deposit box, his office...
...theory at least, could win a medal right now, it makes sense that folks are playing it cool at the moment. "It'll be a way better experience if you're not sloshed the whole time," says Canadian archer Jay Lyon. Not that Lyon has a choice - since alcohol is a depressant and could keep a jittery marksman calmer, beer is considered a performance enhancer in archery. He can't sip a drink for a month. Smart rule: drunk archers can't be good for their fans either...