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...collegiate conviviality has fallen from the civility of a kinder and gentler era. Where once the university quadrangles resounded with the tipsy warbling of De Brevitate Vitae or other commercium songs, now only the echoes of mass-market electronic recordings disturb the silence of Saturday evenings. Beer pong has replaced banter, courtship has yielded to hook-ups, pot is preferred to pipe tobacco. The choice of drink, and the style in which it is quaffed, is likewise illustrative: watery beer or cheap liquor, impurities masked by the syrupy sweetness of sodas and juices, downed in furtive binges. The goal...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: In Vino Veritas | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

Likes: spring rolls, CAPS LOCK, battered sausages, cake, milk, DVDs, beer, pizza, mineral water, his partially deaf grandma, G-rated movies, bowling, time travel, Coke, Coke Zero, banana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Craig? A TIME Investigation | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...traffic needed). Even the wine market, once a purely upscale domain, has been democratized. São Paulo wine retailer Expand has seen sales of its mid-priced bottles jump 25% each of the past few years, and it has opened new stores in provincial cities like Fortaleza, where beer and cachaça (cane liquor) were once the only tipples. Expand's owner, Otávio Piva de Albuquerque, says he spends as much time helping secretaries find $12 Concha y Toros as he does stockbrokers $75 Chambertins. "So many things Brazilians used to think of as unessential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One Country That Might Avoid Recession Is... | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...spends the next four minutes rapping about is a modern day version of National Lampoon’s Delta House, complete with mattresses falling from second floor windows, a strip poker game, and even a grandma shooting a ball out of her mouth to score a winning shot in beer pong. The camera work makes it feel as if I really am watching a video a frat brother made on his handheld. I want to be at this party. I want to “Pass out at three, wake up at 10 / Go out to eat then...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Asher Roth | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...minimum unit price of alcohol to stop strong drink from being sold cheaply, along with bans on cut-price promotions favored by supermarkets. Local police chiefs are being handed the power to request that local licensing boards raise the legal drinking age to 21. (See pictures of Denver, Beer Country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation o' Drinkers: Scotland Takes on Alcohol Abuse | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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