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...research, published in the journal Addiction, found that heavy drinkers cut their alcohol consumption 30% after using the website Check Your Drinking. The reduction was maintained for at least six months. A 2005 study of a slightly more intensive program, Drinkers Check-up, found a 45% to 55% drop maintained for a year, depending on how drinking was measured. Both sites are free, do not collect identifiable personal information and are open for public use. And the outcomes are comparable to those achieved with brief face-to-face counseling. (See TIME's top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...you’re from sunny Los Angeles (or staying with an L.A.-based roommate to escape the cold—good choice, by the way) you can catch the all-male Krokodiloes on Jan. 9 at 7 p.m. at Westwood Presbyterian Church on Wilshire Blvd. Check out the Facebook event to buy tickets. The Kroks will then hit Utah, performing at the Waterford School on Jan. 14 and the University of Utah on Jan. 18. They’ll finish up with some as-yet-unscheduled shows in NYC and head back to Cambridge...
Dins Business Manager and baritone Dillon C. Powers ’11 said most of the gigs they’ll be singing at are private, but there may be a chance for students in D.C. to attend a show at George Washington University. He said students can check Facebook and the Dins’ Web site to see if that show will be happening...
Some co-ed groups are also hitting the road. From Jan. 18-23, the Callbacks will shower Puerto Rican inns, plazas, and the San Jorge Children’s Hospital with music. If you're going to be nearby, check out the schedule on their Web site. The members are looking forward to performing a brand-new Spanish-language song, singer Kristina F. Latino ’13 said...
Drinking increased after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Although personally fond of vodka, Boris Yeltsin abolished the state monopoly and instituted laws to keep drinking in check. He outlawed sidewalk liquor kiosks - prompting merchants to build tiny phone booth-size stores instead. He also raised the price of vodka, which only encouraged the black market for samogon...