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...more drinks in a row, three or more times in the past two weeks. Wechsler has also found that during those same years, there was a threefold increase in the number of women who reported being drunk on 10 or more occasions in the previous month. Among women who drank, there was a 150% increase in "unplanned" sexual activities, date rape and sexual assault. To be sure, women at single-sex schools still drink less than those on coed campuses, and both populations drink less than men. But, says Wechsler, "by drinking heavily, these women are definitely putting themselves...
...researchers asked subjects about their drinking habits, differentiating binge and episodic drinking and the types of alcoholic beverages the subjects drank...
...other end of the scale, women who drank an average of 10 to 12 alcoholic beverages per week were 30 percent more likely to develop hypertension. High blood presure is linked with heart attacks, strokes and kidney damage...
...While the environmental and health impacts are hard to trace to specific pollutants, some effects are strikingly clear. The wells in and around Guiyu have gone bad. Locals consistently described the water as undrinkable, even after being boiled. A restaurant owner tells of a nearby village where residents drank the local water. "Their teeth have gone all black," she says. "They can't be brushed clean...
...this mysterious guy who drank and partied and had sex with women,” Lillian says. “He thought he was hot shit. I was totally fascinated by him. He really turned me on.” She says the two had phone sex about 15 times over the course of the summer...