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...schools even more than it already does, and 13-to-17-year-olds would be more likely to drink at levels now associated with the 17-to-20-year-old college demographic. Although correlation is not causation, a 1978 study suggested high schoolers drank more, abstained less, and got drunk more often in those states with a MLDA...

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

...years in prison; for raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman in the back of a van in November 2005; in Makati City, the Philippines. Three U.S. soldiers and a Filipino driver were cleared of complicity in the attack on the woman, who testified she was too drunk on the evening of the assault to consent to sex. Smith is the first American marine to be convicted of rape in the country since 1998, when the two countries signed the Visiting Forces Agreement, which in part governs the treatment of U.S. servicemen in criminal cases. Smith's lawyers have appealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Outright lying remains less common than massaging the truth, but it still happens. A letter might include lines like, "Bill has been promoted, and Johnny made National Honor Society," when a more truthful missive would have read, "Bill got arrested for drunk driving, and Johnny has converted the garage into a meth...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: A White (Lie) Christmas | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...hand, has put together a team with the experience to really take us to the next level. Thanks to his running mate, Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, upperclassmen are now able to swipe into any freshman dorm when the girls they’re with are too drunk to do it themselves. As you might imagine, this policy has been a huge boon to perverts on campus and has quadrupled the attendance at our Room 13 counseling group on Wednesday nights. The only downside we can think of is that our stipend hasn’t kept...

Author: By David A. Wallach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UC Elections: I Just Fell Asleep | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...middle-aged woman. Similarly, someone driving at 3:00 a.m. Sunday is more than 100 times more likely to die than someone driving at 10:00 a.m. Sunday. Someone with a personality disorder is 10 times more likely to die. And let's say he's also drunk. Tally up all these factors and consider them independently, says Adams, and you could arrive at a statistical prediction that a disturbed, drunken young man driving in the middle of the night is 2.7 million times more likely to be involved in a serious accident than would a sober, middle-aged woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hidden Danger of Seat Belts | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

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