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...Eighteen- to 21-year olds did not have the highest rate of involvement in drunk driving accidents. In 1983, the last year before the new law, 21- to 24-year-olds had the highest rate; 37 year olds had the highest likelihood of dying in an alcohol related crash. If practical considerations were truly the determining factor, the drinking age should have been raised to at least 24, if not higher. Twenty-one happened to be a politically expedient age. Before the early 1970's, the drinking age corresponded with the voting age, then...
...Besides, eighteen to twenty-one year olds form a small enough segment of the population, with little political clout, so that excluding them for the legal drinking population was politically feasible...
...should I be asked to start using Macs after eighteen happy years...
...Winthrop House we have eighteen tutors who with their families constitute a population of about 25 adults and children. These figures come from a house that is home to less than 400 students. Overcrowding is rife, yet as students suffer the small and dingy rooms, the tutor population proliferates...
...performance in the movie, evolving from the sober young teacher of the beginning to a mature and self possessed woman. Teyssedre makes Jeanne an intensely likable creation and provides the film with its radiant core. Beautiful and petulant, Darrell gives a splendid performance as Natacha, a confused and complex eighteen year-old wavering between adolescence and adulthood...