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...Enough to Defraud, Old Enough to Drink: Before it reformed the procedure for obtaining a liquor purchase I.D., the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles issued an average of almost 6000 liquor purchase I.D.'s per month...
Last August, the Registry imposed stricter regulations on the issuance of liquor I.D.'s, including a requirement that all applicants be interviewed by a uniformed police officer and be informed of the $300 penalty for fraudulently obtaining an I.D. The average number of I.D.'s issued declined to fewer than 3300 per month, according to Diane Turner, a public relations officer at the Registry...
...Robbins. This week -- 50 years later and four blocks south, at the Imperial Theater -- Broadway welcomes another revue, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, with another cast of young hopefuls. But everything else about this show is bigger, riskier and very late '80s. For one thing, its co-sponsor is a Japanese liquor firm. For another, it carries an all-time-high ticket price of $55. And the cost of its opening is $8 million, a thousand times that of The Straw Hat Revue...
This phenomenon is known as cross dependence, or cross addiction. Researchers estimate that between 40% and 75% of people in treatment programs are multiple-substance abusers. Sometimes people mix several drugs at once -- liquor and tranquilizers, for example, as in former First Lady Betty Ford's case. Others, like Kitty Dukakis, may slip from one chemical to another. Says counselor Fred Holmquist of the Hazelden Foundation in Center City, Minn., where Kitty was treated for amphetamine abuse: "It's like switching staterooms on the Titanic...
...shortages seem to lend themselves to quick solutions. When sugar suddenly grew scarce 18 months ago, most consumers blamed Gorbachev's antialcoholism drive, which diverted substantial quantities of the commodity into home brewing. Authorities have somewhat relaxed their original strictures on liquor production, but sugar is still rationed in 67 of the Russian Republic's 86 administrative districts. Other goods that are frequently hard to find: good cheese, coffee, chocolate, fresh fruit and bath towels. "Fruit and vegetables have always been scarce in the Russian winter," said a gray- haired man shopping on Moscow's Kutuzovsky Prospekt...