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WHAT'S NEW ABOUT YOUR THIRD SEASON? We'll embrace everything we've done in the past--Dr. Phil families, weight loss, silent epidemics--but we'll also take on some bigger social issues. A lot of places in America are losing control of young people with teenage pregnancies, drunk driving, drugs in the schools and things like that. We're going to turn a bright light on that...
...thought of slurping a raw egg makes you gag, try easing your hangover with some prickly pear fruit extract. Researchers in?where else??New Orleans asked 55 volunteers, of ages 21 to 35, to get drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. The following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher...
...Authorities in countries such as China appear to be waking up to the high cost of doing nothing to improve road safety. On May 1, China's first road-safety laws came into effect. The new legislation tightens rules governing such offenses as speeding and drunk driving, and also raises penalties significantly?for example, imposing a lifetime driving ban on drivers who flee the scene of an accident, and sentences of up to seven years in prison for those who kill someone while driving drunk. Something had to be done. While mainland China possesses just 1.9% of the world...
...measures that will make Asia's highways safer are well known. Laid out in a range of studies emanating over the years from the ADB and other multilateral institutions, they include: stricter legislation in critical areas such as speeding and drunk driving; wider use of seat belts and helmets; more money to improve highway infrastructure; improved driver education; improved treatment for accident victims; and greater commitment to providing police with the salaries, equipment and training needed to ensure they will scrupulously enforce the law. The ADB, in particular, conducted a regional road-safety study in 1997 that provided detailed guidelines...
...years--is the nexus of the avant-garde and the conventional, and on their debut, out (finally) July 27, the Scissor Sisters--Shears, Babydaddy, Ana Matronic, Paddy Boom and Del Marquis--walk the line with Madonna-like confidence. Take Your Mama, their first single, is about getting Mom drunk on cheap champagne so you can come out of the closet to her while going clubbing with friends. Yet as Shears vaults his falsetto over lines like "You can stay up late 'cause baby you're a full-grown man" and into solidly gay territory, the rest of the band pillages...