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...social norms approach was given a boost late last summer when H. Wesley Perkins, an anthropology professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, published a study with two colleagues saying that over 70 percent of students nationwide think their peers drink more than they actually do. At schools where people drank an average of four drinks when they “partied,” according to the study, 37 percent of students reported a belief that their peers’ drank an average of five to six drinks, and 34.9 percent overestimated to the tune of seven drinks...
...Tasmania isn't exactly known for its balmy weather, but whatever the season, you'll find some of Australia's hottest jazz at the Courtyard, an outdoor venue behind the arts center at Hobart's historic Salamanca Place. Come Friday nights, it's packed with hundreds of people drinking, dancing and socializing to an ever-changing roster of bands. "We play, rain, hail or shine," says organizer Tania Bosak, a Croatian immigrant and live wire on the local arts scene who started the evenings five years ago. There's no cover charge-instead, band members walk around between sets holding...
...Number of pizzas delivered to inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart, Australia, helping to end a hostage crisis and two-day siege...
...weeks ago, I couldn't make the payroll," says Fisher. A onetime Hobart, Ind., poultry farmer, Fisher went to Florida specifically to hunt for underwater fortune. Underwater exploration has been his obsession almost from the age of eleven, when, back in Indiana, he made a homespun diving helmet out of a 5-gal. paint can and nearly drowned trying it out. After he arrived in Key West in 1970 and began salvaging, Fisher became a fabled local character on an island where there is considerable competition for such distinction. For years he lived in an old houseboat and drove...
...Wesley Perkins, a professor of sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, argues that excessive drinking is considered a long-standing cultural tradition with no real reason. “On any night in any campus the majority of people are sober,” he says. “Intoxicated behavior is very vivid. Everyone remembers and talks about it the next...