Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five years ago the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study released its first report, bringing college binge drinking to national attention--not that it had been a well-kept secret until then. Jay Leno joked at the time, "Did it take a team of Harvard researchers to discover that college students drink?" The study did put some numbers on this behavior. Nationally, two in five students were binge drinkers, and half of these binge drinkers did so several times a week. The impact of binge drinking was not limited to the drinkers alone, but also affected others...
someone hands you a clear drink...
...Jamaican!" Harris exclaimed. Since they were returning from a hard trip, Vanderhoop recalls, they were overjoyed to drink a beer. As it turned out, beer was not enough to solve their problems...
...part, it's the truth. The lights are bright, the countertops gleam, and the "grille" serves food that is actually fresh--cooked right before your very eyes. Best of all, the new kitchen layouts eliminate messy pile-ups. There are no more Annenberg-esque elbowfests to get to the drink machines, and extra countertop space ensures that you can put down your tray as you move through each station without blocking the person behind you. The result is a steady flow of students from the entrance to the exit no matter how many people are present...
...little dispute that red wine can help keep a heart healthy. Now it's increasingly clear that grape juice may do the trick too. Purple grape juice--not the white kind--seems to offset damaging effects of LDL (or "bad") cholesterol and keep blood vessels elastic in adults who drink about 12 oz. a day. The fruit juice contains the same beneficial flavonoids--aromatic micronutrients--found in red wine...