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Binge drinking among college students is significantly higher in states that have relaxed alcohol policies and high rates of adult binge drinking, according to a recent study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Author: By Carolyn A. Sheehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Laws Affect Binge Drinking | 3/9/2005 | See Source »

The study refutes the commonly held belief that college binge drinking practices are affected only by campus culture, said Henry Wechsler, the director of the CAS and the principal investigator of this study.

Author: By Carolyn A. Sheehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Laws Affect Binge Drinking | 3/9/2005 | See Source »

TIME: There's a focus on rural poverty in your budget. What about India's urban poor? Chidambaram: In urban areas, I believe that hardly anyone goes without food; there is always some kind of income. But their poverty stems from the environment in which they live?lack of sanitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "People Think India Is a Poor Country. It Is Not" | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

There is an apposite Byron quotation for this feeling. (I have learned over the past months, as have my roommates, that there is an apposite Byron quotation for most emotions and events.) One night in February 1817, in the midst of the Carnival in Venice, Byron staggered back to his...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: What Would Byron Do? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

Nearly half the 6 billion people in the world are poor. As a matter of definition, there are three degrees of poverty: extreme (or absolute) poverty, moderate poverty and relative poverty. Extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as getting by on an income of less than $1 a day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Poverty | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

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