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From the moment freshmen set foot on campus, they are steeped in a culture that encourages them to drink, and drink heavily. At many schools, social life is still synonymous with alcohol-lubricated gatherings at fraternities and sororities, as well as the tailgate-party and hip-flask scene that accompanies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE BINGE | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Cadres carrying red flags are still mobilizing workers, children and the military, marching them with buckets--for nothing. People are desperately scrounging for wild grasses, roots, bark--anything to supplement government rations as low as 12 spoonfuls of grain a day. In one village on the eastern coast, a rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICS OF FAMINE | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

PHILATELIC FELINE The Central African Republic, it seems, has a soft spot for Socks. But you don't have to go there to lick the back of the First Cat's stamp. The International Collectors Society, a privately owned stamp company, sells a block of nine for $12.95. The company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 25, 1997 | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

Fourteen years ago, I was a new graduate nurse employed in a Veterans Administration medical center. I thought it was unconscionable for the hospital to distribute scrip for the patients to obtain free cigarettes in the hospital commissary while nurses administered chemotherapy to cancer patients who smoked. Patients were grotesquely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

The battle to reconcile House and Senate versions should wipe the smiley off his coat. The Senate's budget includes a measure raising the Medicare age from 65 to 67 and charging higher premiums to wealthy recipients; the House bill does not. (Though the Senate's provisions are expected to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUT ON A HAPPY FACE--FOR NOW | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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