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At their all-night parties, theancient Greeks played a game called Kottabos, which involved flinging the residue from the bottom of their cups of wine at a target. Kottabos was probably the first drinking game to get really, really big--supposedly even Socrates played. Today young philosophers still like to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer Pong's Big Splash | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

It's very unclear [how big an effect that could have]. I've seen men who have done horrendous damage to themselves over time with smoking and drinking and who still get to 100 and older - though that's very, very rare. They might have the right combination of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

The anti-pong activism strikes JV Games' Jaegar as somewhat fruitless. As long as students "have access to alcohol, they will create drinking games out of any activity," he says. More to the point, if students have access to alcohol, they'll drink it - no games necessary. "You can't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Beer Pong | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

Bowdler has a point. Recent data from the Harvard School of Public Health's College Alcohol study, which surveyed more than 50,000 students at 120 colleges, show that binge-drinking habits vary widely from campus to campus. Kids tend to party hardest at schools with few official alcohol-control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Beer Pong | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

Still, there's no guarantee that simply taking the beer out of beer pong will have the sobering effect that college deans intend. Last year, Dartmouth College banned water pong, the real-world version of Pong Toss, because of the risk of water intoxication - it's no joke, as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against Beer Pong | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

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