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...withdrawal Hangovers are much easier to prevent than to cure. Harvey recommends that you eat before and pace yourself while drinking. Set a limit to your night’s worth of drinking and stick to it. There is some truth to the saying “beer before liquor, never sicker”: Alternating between different kinds of drinks can lead to headaches and an upset stomach. Do alternate, however, between alcohol and food or non-alcoholic beverages, especially water. Also, skip drinking soda—carbonation can speed up intoxication and increase headaches. Time is the only true...
...going to pour out a little liquor for Ice Cube—he’s dead...
Twenty years later, the big boys are out in the cold. Although mass-produced beer is still the most popular alcoholic beverage in the U.S., it has been steadily losing ground to wine and liquor. In the first half of 2005, the big brewers shipped 1.2 million fewer barrels than in the year before. But Americans haven't totally lost their taste for beer. "They may not be drinking more, but they're drinking better," says Gary Hemphill, vice president of the Beverage Marketing Institute. Specialty beers, benefiting from a nationwide trend toward affordable luxury, grew 7.1% in the first...
...camp with public transport buses on hand ready to move the refugees to camps in the desert of Dahshur near the Saqqara pyramids in Giza. For almost four hours police officers used microphones to urge the protesters to peacefully end their sit-in. The refugees responded by throwing empty liquor bottles, iron rods, stones, and tree branches at the police. Police reacted by directing high-powered water jets at the refugees. As the police set upon the refugees, a stampede ensued. The clash ended with about 20 deaths and at least 70 injuries; most of the casualties were children...
Alcohol experts think the government could be a lot more influential if it had the guts to take on the liquor industry and voters who whinge about the nanny state. Those experts say there's good evidence that what works best to curb excess drinking is higher taxes on alcohol, lowering the number and density of places to buy booze and instituting a robust policy of random breath-alcohol testing for drivers. But across Europe--the hardest-drinking region in the world--almost all governments, including Britain's, prefer responsible-drinking campaigns premised on the idea that trouble flows from...