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Walk into a British pub and order a pint bottle of Magners Original - a premium cider brewed by Ireland's C&C Group - and be ready to cough up the princely sum of $7 to $8. That's as much or more than you'd pay for any other cider or beer on offer. But price be damned, say British drinkers, who are acquiring a growing thirst for ciders in general, and premium ones in particular. Cider consumption in Britain jumped 35% last year - an increase analysts have dubbed the Magners effect. That's a tribute to a brand that...
...around the world, and that garment bag you've been lugging feels like a Buick on your back. You arrive at your posh hotel, and an overly costumed valet grabs the bag, carries it all of 50 yards to reception and bids you good day. You are expected to cough up a tip. And you might not see your belongings again for another half an hour while the bag makes its way to your room...
...room falls silent save for the soft drone of an air conditioner. It's embarrassing for these upstanding burghers of Singapore-so methodical and conscientious in their professional lives-to dwell upon the possibility that they might be falling short at home, but Wong lets them fidget and cough for a few more moments before resuming. "Watching your children over the Internet is one thing," he says, "but the goal of parenting is to get them to do the right thing when you're not looking." And there are plenty of hours in the day when Asian fathers...
...mixing drugs at home become more common on the Internet. Hospital admission data tend to bear this out, and so does a new study by Ilene Anderson and her colleagues, showing a 15-fold increase in calls to emergency hotlines in California involving teen abuse of over-the-counter cough medicines between 1999 and 2004. "Pharming" parties also appear to on the increase... What's more, it's indisputable that the use of prescription drugs by young people-which may be replacing the "self-medicating" applications of some illegal drugs-has skyrocketed over the past decade. More is now being...
...true that cough syrup abuse and prescription drug abuse has increased, but overall drug use among teens has fallen. School violence declined steadily in the 1990s and early '00s (see http://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/). As for overall crime, as the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows in "Juvenile Victimization and Offending, 1993-2003", crime has fallen among kids, in some cases (such as homicide) quite dramatically...