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...hung out with his grandchildren. Others, however, found the strain of high office to be too much. James K. Polk died three months after leaving the White House. Franklin Pierce, whose 11-year-old son had been killed in a train accident just weeks before his inauguration, drank. And Chester A. Arthur died about 18 months after his term ended...
...NewsHour will be able to compete for scoops. Obama flew in Sunday afternoon from Chicago on a jumbo jet from the Air Force's presidential fleet. (He was choked up leaving his old house!) He moved into a hotel with his family. (The Hay-Adams, where Mark Twain drank!) His daughters were shuttled off to a new school. (Tuition is almost $30,000 a year - but the hot lunches are free...
Whatever your reasons - celebration, loneliness, attempting to figure out what "Auld Lang Syne" actually means - if you drank too much on Dec. 31, you probably rang in the new year with a pounding headache and regular trips to the bathroom. If so, don't worry; you're not the first person to endure a hangover, and although it feels like it, you won't be the last. (Read about Joel Stein's trip through the Colorado beer trail...
Whatever your medicine of choice, you should realize that it's probably not going to work. Hangovers exist for a reason - your mouth is dry because you're dehydrated. Your eyes are red because you probably didn't sleep very well, and your body is sore because you just drank something that is basically poisonous. No amount of Worcestershire sauce, egg yolk or myrrh can change the fact that five hours ago, you were downing lemon drops and dancing on top of a bar to music by KC and the Sunshine Band. So take a shower, have something...
...Southwest, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reanalyzed data from earlier studies, teasing out findings that specifically focused on the drug's effectiveness during 10 U.S. holidays. Comparing patients who received the naltrexone shots to those who received placebos, she found a reduction in the number of days the subjects drank and - on those days they slipped - in the number of drinks they consumed, with a smaller percentage of sessions classified as heavy drinking sessions (five or more drinks for men and four or more for women). These results were actually consistent throughout the year, but the fact that they didn...