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...Look at the Scientific Evidence, published in August by Oxford. For example: "Prohibitionists might mention that THC [delta-9 tetra-hydrocannabinol, the smile-producing chemical in pot] often appears in the blood of people in auto accidents. Yet they might omit the fact that most of these people also drank alcohol. Antiprohibitionists might cite a large study that showed no sign of memory problems in chronic marijuana smokers. Yet they might not mention that the tests were so easy that even a demented person could perform them...
...People drank a lot of beer, and I wasn’t into that,” Dara Horn ’99 explained to the crowd at Wordsworth Books two Thursdays ago. Horn, a former literature concentrator, current GSAS student and head teaching fellow for last year’s core “Literature and Arts A48: The Modern Jewish Experience,” recently published In the Image, a novel she wrote while studying for a year in Cambridge...
...gliding gracefully into the Harvard social scene. “I only make friends when I make an ass of myself,” he says. But it hasn’t always taken alcohol to bring the asshole out of the boy. “I never drank at all before I came here,” says the Exeter graduate as he walks away from the pre-gaming party at which he took five shots in less than an hour. “Never in my whole life.” Tillery says he had to leave when...
...asked Charles de Gaulle back in 1962. It's a good thing no one got the General onto the subject of wine. France has no fewer than 466 different Appellations d'Origine Contrôlée, plus some 150 Vins de Pays. This hardly mattered when the French drank most of their wine themselves; complexity, after all, is part of being French. But with adults consuming half the wine they did in the '60s, producers are having to look elsewhere. And they're discovering that foreign drinkers often have simpler tastes. If the French wine industry is to fight...
...years of colonial rule?first by Portugal, then Indonesia?the Timorese are adapting quickly to the independence they had craved. "I love this freedom," says a shopkeeper selling wine at the bottom of the hill from the Pousade de Maubisse. "In Indonesia time no one at the hotel drank alcohol. All Muslim soldiers, only here for bad time. Now many tourists come and buy wine from me. They all here for good time. Much better...