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...practice Islam as much as back home," he says. "I just go to Friday prayers. I try to enforce the laws that I think are very important, like praying five times and not drinking alcohol. There are, like, nine different things dealing with alcohol that are forbidden, and for me, I don't want to do anything with it. This is how we were in Somalia." As a result, he says, he has bypassed three fares in five years...
What if a judge ruled he had to drive customers with alcohol or find another job? "It would hurt my beliefs," he says. "But there are rules in this country. If we want to impose our rules and our beliefs, we should stay where we came from. If the court finds that what we are doing is wrong, then it's wrong. I could get another job." That sounds both Islamic and realistic...
Grinker's answer is that autistic adults are out there but wearing other labels. "Where are all the adults with fetal alcohol syndrome?" he asks. No one over 40 has the condition, thought to affect up to 1 in 500 kids today, because it was not recognized until the mid-'70s. "But no one would say alcoholism among pregnant women just started," says Grinker...
...been drinking, a car will soon take away your keys. Toyota is developing steering-wheel sweat sensors that will detect a driver's blood-alcohol level, then disable the car if necessary...
...took Leipold eight years and all €1.5 million of the family's money to perfect the recipe. Leipold found a way to ferment a nonalcoholic drink by converting the sugar that normally becomes alcohol into nonalcoholic gluconic acid. And because the acid strengthened the taste of sugar, Leipold only needed a fraction of the sugar found in a normal soft drink. Then came the flavors - elderberry, lychee, orange-ginger and herb - plus a spritz of carbonation...