Word: drinker
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...least in a lab setting, those who are led to believe that they're about to get truly blotto end up not letting themselves get so blotto. They don't perform as well on their tests as sober people, but they perform a lot better than the average drinker...
...Harvard, not being a beer drinker carries a stigma. If you abstain from alcohol—“even beer?!”—then you’re labeled a wuss. If you drink, but opt for something else, than you run the risk of being considered a liquor snob. And it’s hard not to come out of the closet as a non-beer drinker. The Queen’s Head—Harvard’s gleaming, retro social space du jour—has a beer-centric menu and a calendar...
...Harvard is actually a remarkably safe (and tame) place to drink, in particular because so few people drive. Without cars, most of the harm done by drinking falls upon the drinker. And if the occasional Harvard student feels like possibly lopping a few years off of his expected lifespan in return for enjoying the years he has a little more, so be it. That’s what living...
...drink, it was still seen, no matter what the AMA said, as somehow voluntary. Treatment consisted mostly of talk therapy, maybe some vitamins and usually a strong recommendation to join Alcoholics Anonymous. Although it's a totally nonprofessional organization, founded in 1935 by an ex-drunk and an active drinker, AA has managed to get millions of people off the bottle, using group support and a program of accumulated folk wisdom...
...blame with its politicians for the current state of affairs. Thursday night - the beginning of the weekend here - was business as usual for most people in this beach city preparing for the summer season, unmoved by the protest in Rabin Square. "The country has already moved on," said a drinker next to me in a crowded bar on Ben Yehuda street. "No one cares about the war in Lebanon anymore." With suicide bombings down and the stock market up, much of the country seems blissfully undisturbed by the growing chaos beyond its security barriers and heavily guarded borders...