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Most social-host laws give police expansive powers. According to data compiled by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, an organization based in Calverton, Md., that studies alcohol policy, only eight of 67 U.S. jurisdictions with social-host laws require that the homeowner have "actual knowledge" of underage drinking at the house to be charged with a crime. In other words, you can violate most social-host laws even if you are in another country when your kid decides to party. And under many social-host laws, a meal with wine served at a dinner table is treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should You Drink with Your Kids? | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

When Tracey was in the National Guard, he served in the honor guard at Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island, N.Y. He would hand the folded flag to the widows of the Korean War and Vietnam vets who are starting to fill that graveyard. "If something happens to him," Anna says, "I don't want the flag. Let them give it to his mother. If you can't give me my husband back, you can keep your flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving Out | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...section of the plane, and found no other traces of explosives. You would expect more traces to be there, so why haven't they found there more positive readings? Instead of a conclusion, these findings just lead to more speculation. Other tests for explosives at the local lab in Calverton have resulted in false positive tests for explosives. The FBI will have to gather a lot more evidence before they can say definitively that a bomb or a missile destroyed the plane." Such evidence would be crucial to any court case, meaning that divers will continue their grim search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWA: Not So Fast | 8/25/1996 | See Source »

...garbage man was in the midst of emptying a trash can outside a ranch home in Calverton, Md., when a woman in a housecoat and apron appeared at the kitchen door. The garbage man, who had known her several years earlier, ducked behind a gate. "If my cover had been blown there would have been publicity," he reasoned. "People would have recognized me and the whole thing wouldn't have worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning with a Shovel | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...Donahue, 51, Manhattan man about town, heir to a $15-odd million slice of the five-and-dime fortune; and Mary Hartline Carlson, 37, blonde and bouncy bandleader on TV's Super Circus in the mid-1950s; both for the third time; at Woolie's estate in Calverton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 8, 1965 | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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