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...Children's Hospital of Philadelphia report in two studies that parents can significantly reduce the accident rate among teens simply by talking with them about driving and enforcing rules for safety - much the way, as has been shown, parents can reduce the risk of substance abuse through conversations about alcohol and drugs. In fact, driving should be considered as dangerous as alcohol and drugs, the scientists say. In 2005, the latest year for which the government has statistics on teen driving, adolescent deaths made up 12% of all deaths from car accidents, and 400,000 teens required treatment...
...More important, the liquidity the dollar carry trade creates, like alcohol, can also be hazardous if taken in immoderate amounts. For instance, Citigroup's Chua says one of the reasons Asia's stock and property markets have been rallying over the last six months is because of the overabundance of short-term liquidity. "A lot of dollars are seeping into Asian economies," she says. "That's pumping up asset bubbles." When those bubbles burst, as they frequently do, there will no doubt be unpleasant messes to clean...
...city’s bipolar swings between temptation and abstinence evoke the anxieties of a more ancient city-state. The ancient Athenians viewed the world as teeming with temptations—food, alcohol, clothing, sex—and sophrosyne (self-restraint) was paramount to protecting their democratic way of life. In Herodotus’s chauvinistic “Histories,” the Greeks overcame the invading Persians because their army maintained sophrosyne, eating only the sparsest food, while the Persians indulged in luxuries even as they overstretched their empire, depleting the land as they feasted on it, marching...
...Kadyrov inherited the Chechen presidency in 2007 from his father, who was assassinated three years earlier in 2004. He has been ruling the volatile region in Russia's North Caucasus since, alternately garnering praise for bringing stability to the region and criticism for enshrining new laws banning alcohol production and gambling whilst legalizing polygamy. Tatiana Lokshina, the deputy director of the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch in Russia, told TIME that Chechnya's population is "paralyzed by fear" under Kadyrov's government. She says Kadyrov's administration is using the ongoing battle against separatist insurgents as an excuse...
Peggy Noonan's Fall 2009 IOP Study Group is billed as a lesson on "Creativity in Journalism, in Politics and in Life: A Writer's Perspective". After reading Ms. Noonan's course syllabus, though, Flyby is slightly concerned that the said perspective might be a little clouded with alcohol-/society-induced narcissism...