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Still feeling--or worse still, wearing--the effects of those Super Bowl suds? You may not know when to stop, but other species do. When plied with alcohol (flat beer and gelatin shots, actually), lab rats avoid unsightly bulges by cutting back on other calories. The rats also quit after the equivalent of two to three beers. --By David Bjerklie
Each HoCo was asked in November to contribute $450 to purchasing beer from Budweiser, although $150 could be paid out of each HoCo’s stein club budget, which the Undergraduate Council (UC) funds...
...casualties on the scene. But since restrictive licensing laws haven't stopped the problem, will loosening them make things worse? The Labour government says a "minority" of drinkers are causing the mayhem, and staggered closing hours will reduce the number of people - and brawls - on the streets. The British Beer and Pub Association, the trade group representing nearly 40,000 British bars, also blames a "minority" and says varied hours will help. "The information we've had from our members would seem to support the idea that we'd have reduced numbers of people on the street at the same...
...scientists compiled data from 11,000 nurses between the ages of 70 and 81 about drinking habits and cognitive ability. The women were divided into three groups based on their daily consumption of alcohol: those who drank one to 14.9 grams of wine, beer or liquor per day, those who drank up to twice that dosage and those who drank none at all. Cognitive tests were conducted on the women in 1999 and 2001. The large sample size ensured that factors such as age, exercise habits, cholesterol levels and high blood pressure would be compensated for in the analysis...
...similarities, especially in terms of human suffering and misery, are overwhelming enough for them to be judged in the same vein. We would never consider putting mock-Nazi propaganda on a House Committee t-shirt; nor would we ever think of making a swastika out of a beer-bong and a keg tap. We probably wouldn’t wear a t-shirt saying “give me some lebenstraum,” and we would never think of sporting a t-shirt with Hitler’s face on it. This is because we have smugly assured ourselves...