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The Exiles took three years to make, as MacKenzie enlisted friends and fellow students from USC. (The movie's credits list five cinematographers and six editors.) When he had money, he filmed; when he didn't, he tried raising more. He got $1,250 from his barber, another $2,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exiles on Indie Street | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

The government has made ambitious plans to tackle the problem head-on. French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot announced that she would scrap France's relatively permissive rules on sales of alcohol to youths. She told the Sunday paper Journal du Dimanche that she would impose a "total prohibition of alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Combat Youth Binge-Drinking | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

Her legislation aims to combat the spread of France's variant of the "drinking to get drunk" behavior that has long been a problem in the U.K. and on American college campuses. But it is bound to discourage alcohol consumption among adults, too. Its measures include prohibiting alcohol sales in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Combat Youth Binge-Drinking | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

Binge-drinking has increasingly come under the media spotlight. Multiple cases of teenage students turning up to school blind drunk have been reported, as have incidents of young people suffering temporary alcohol-induced comas. Just last month, an 18-year-old student in central France drank himself to death while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Combat Youth Binge-Drinking | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

So what's behind this upsurge in binge-drinking among France's youth? Etienne Apaire, president of France's Interministerial Mission Against Drugs and Addiction, says alcohol is now being used both with and like banned substances - cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy - "to attain an immediate state of intoxication." Apaire says a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Combat Youth Binge-Drinking | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

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