Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dangerous Drink...
...kidneys remove toxic substances from the blood. The drinking of urine will result in reabsorption of these substances. A healthy adult could probably consume a small daily portion of his urine without complication. However, consumption of even a small amount of urine by a person with marginally functional kidneys could lead to uremic poisoning by progressively elevating the blood concentrations of toxic substances. Readers who are willing to "drink up" should know the odds before they toast their health...
...their hard history. Even in the large cities, Afrikaners tend to mix uneasily with English-speaking whites. In the country, they are a law and a people unto themselves. The family structure is strong and disciplined; Afrikaner youth are far less likely than their Anglo counterparts to smoke or drink. Sunday is the Lord's day; sports, cinema and TV are forsworn for lengthy sermons of a dominee at the local church. The Afrikaner can, and usually does, treat his black workers with kindness. Yet there is never a sense that the black is, or even could be, his equal...
...France's most popular comic strip; of a heart attack; in Paris. Astérix, a diminutive Gaul, was a spokesman for all the shrewd little guys who fearlessly take on bigger adversaries-not for ideological reasons but in order to be able to eat, drink and be merry. Three weeks before he died, Goscinny realized his dream of being syndicated...
...woman in her 20s, who had taken on assignments for the bureau on a part-time basis. FBI field agents asked her to get to know Lusis and his companions in hopes of obtaining information. She got to know one of the students and joined the group for a drink, then stayed with the party as it moved to another apartment, where more liquor was served...