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Although arguments for lowering the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) are reasonably convincing, the US should not repeat its past mistakes. We have already experimented once with a lower MLDA, and the results should be enough to convince even college libertines of the wisdom of limiting alcohol to those over...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: For Drinking, 21 the Right Number | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

Underage drinking will always be a problem, no matter where the MLDA is set. However, if it were set at 18, alcohol would spill over to high schools even more than it already does, and 13-to-17-year-olds would be more likely to drink at levels now associated...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: For Drinking, 21 the Right Number | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

Teenagers have also been safer since 21 became the MLDA. The government estimates that the higher age saves up to 1,000 lives a year from drunk-driving accidents. During the 1970s, states that changed their drinking ages to 18 or 19 reported spikes in the frequency of alcohol-related...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: For Drinking, 21 the Right Number | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

As logic would suggest, more legal access to alcohol also means more consumers. Almost all studies agree that states with higher MLDAs fostered citizens who drank less often than those in states with lower MLDAs, both before and after their 21st birthdays. The number of high-school seniors nationally who...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: For Drinking, 21 the Right Number | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

The site for the moon settlement is uncertain, but the best candidate is near Shackleton Crater at the south lunar pole. Parts of the region are bathed in sunlight more than 70% of the time, just the thing for the outpost's solar panels. What's more, ridges and hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Condo on The Moon... | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

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