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...that liquor as merely a tax on the rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine. As a result, although the U.S. ranks sixth among the world's wine-producing nations, it is 29th in terms of wine consumption...
Wechsler surveyed 1669 first-year students at 14 colleges in Massachusetts and found that about one-third of the men and a quarter of the women drank more than once a week...
Ninety-two percent of the men and 82 percent of the women who drank more than once a week had five or more drinks in a row at least once in a two-week period...
They ate pizza and drank beer as they watched CNN's election returns on the Kennedy School of Government's large-screen television...
Even this report, however, has its ambiguities. The researchers found that the people in the study who drank four or more cups of decaffeinated coffee a day had a slightly higher risk of coronary heart disease. That's puzzling because caffeine has generally been fingered as the most noxious ingredient in coffee. The report's authors caution that the slim evidence against decaf may be a statistical fluke...