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...Bones on grade inflation: "They don't want you to do that badly," Bones says, explaining she doesn't fear reprisal for her lax study habits...
...university committee composed of students, faculty and administrators criticized MIT six years ago for lax enforcement of its existing alcohol policy. The committee particularly targeted drink at MIT fraternities...
...fact that many college students, like Wynne, are under the legal drinking age is rarely an obstacle. Many drink at private parties off campus, with an older student buying the alcohol. Bars' enforcement of the drinking age can be lax, false IDs are common, and legal-age friends are often willing to buy the drinks and bring them back to the table. In fact, raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, a movement that swept all 50 states over the past two decades, may actually have made the binging problem worse. Instead of drinking in well-monitored settings...
STOPPAGE Don't bother looking for Ex-Lax in the next couple of months. The popular laxative was temporarily pulled off shelves by its maker for reformulation. The move anticipates an FDA ban of a key ingredient linked to cancer in animals...
WASHINGTON: After 90 years of regularity, America's No.1 laxative is set to be dumped from supermarket shelves. Novartis, the drug's maker, pulled Ex-Lax Friday after the FDA announced an intended ban of the product. Apparently high doses of phenolphthalein, Ex-Lax's active ingredient, causes cancer in laboratory animals. Novartis said it was "obviously disappointed," but promised that a reformulated Ex-Lax derived from the senna plant would be on store shelves in 60 days. Expect coffee and bran muffin futures to skyrocket when Wall Street's big players get back from the beach...