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...moderate social drinkers may indulge too heavily. That's the reason 40% of all road deaths during the Christmas and New Years season involve at least one alcohol-impaired driver, compared to 28% the rest of the year. Those numbers ought literally to be sobering, but for some drinkers - full-blown alcoholics in particular - they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Injection to Cure Holiday Drinking? | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...problem, approving a new form of naltrexone in which tiny grains of the drug are coated in a biodegradable polymer. Inject a dose of this reformulated stuff, and the coating will dissolve slowly, releasing just enough drug for just enough time to keep you off the sauce for a full month. If one of those months is the holiday season, could the strategy save lives? The new study says that the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Injection to Cure Holiday Drinking? | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...found a way to eliminate junk mail, I have a tactic that at least makes me feel a little better about receiving it. When I get any unwanted mail with a prepaid return envelope (so long as it is not from a charity), I stuff that envelope as full as I can with junk from a different source and put it back in the mail. This does not relieve the real problem, but it gives the postal service much-needed business. Steve Block, Dunnellon, Florida

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...same time, the NBA, like most other pro sports leagues, is full of copycats, which means the kind of coach or team that management wants can change very quickly. The Phoenix Suns win by playing an up-tempo style? Maybe we should do that. Oklahoma City fired Carlesimo after a brutal start? The other coaches will fall like dominoes. "Once there's blood in the water, people don't think they're keeping up with the times," says an NBA source familiar with coach-management relations. "These guys can't help themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NBA's Epidemic of Fired Coaches | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...Quinn would not have a long stint in office before having to think about running for a full term in 2010. Perhaps ironically, among those jostling for the executive suite is Madigan, who is considered by some to be a front runner for the job - and whose father, Illinois house speaker Michael Madigan, decided Monday that impeachment proceedings will go forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Quinn: The Man Who Would Replace Blagojevich | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

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