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...have heard of gum arabic but you've almost certainly drunk it, eaten it or worn makeup that depends on it. Tapped from acacia trees growing across Sudan's "gum" belt, the wonder ingredient was first used in Egyptian mummification 5,000 years...
...renaissance of the Cheyenne River Sioux began with a drunk in a dumpster. One day, 11 years ago, a man passed out while foraging for food in Gregg Bourland's garbage. Bourland was minding his own business - a video store in Eagle Butte, S.D. - when he found the guy. "Why do people drink like that?" Bourland asked himself, but he knew the reasons: unemployment and despair. Bourland went to the tribal chairman to ask what he was doing about all of the above. Answer: nothing. "He was interested in government handouts, not development," says Bourland. Later that year, 1990, Bourland...
...mysterious behavior - mysterious for a distinguished and successful writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, to brag and tell casually self-glorifying lies to his students, like a drunk maundering on his tenth beer at the Blarney Stone. When I heard about Ellis' concoctions, I wanted, out of loyalty, to find a way to dismiss them or excuse them...
...fueling up on as much alcohol as they can hold before the evening begins so that the buzz lasts as long as possible. As for the reduction in traffic fatalities? Skeptics believe it may have less to do with changing the drinking age than with the new mores about drunk driving and the more aggressive enforcement of DUI laws...
...renaissance of the Cheyenne River Sioux began with a drunk in a dumpster. One day, 11 years ago, a man passed out while foraging for food in Gregg Bourland's garbage. Bourland was minding his own business--a video store in Eagle Butte, S.D.--when he found the guy. "Why do people drink like that?" Bourland asked himself, but he knew the reasons: unemployment and despair. Bourland went to the tribal chairman to ask what he was doing about all of the above. Answer: nothing. "He was interested in government handouts, not development," says Bourland. Later that year, 1990, Bourland...