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...days and even weeks of fasting. It took her years to get help. She looked for a program in which others could identify with her issues of loss and aging. This summer she turned to San Diego's Puente de Vida, a private, six-bed facility that requires at minimum a 30-day stay, which costs $30,000. During her time there, Karen says, three of the six women were her age or older. "I didn't want to be with a lot of teeny-boppers who might look at me and think, 'What's that old lady doing here...
...requiring investors to close on (and take title to) the property they're buying. Hilton and Meritage, as well as a host of other large developers like Pulte Homes, are playing even harder ball: they now demand that a homebuyer forfeit the profit if selling a home before the minimum period of one year (except for hardship reasons). Hilton says Meritage already has several cases pending in court against investors who violated those contract terms. "We weren't doing this a few years ago because the investors were few and far between," says Hilton...
When students are hospitalized--or worse yet, die from alcohol poisoning, which happens about 300 times each year--college presidents tend to react by declaring their campuses dry or shutting down fraternity houses. But tighter enforcement of the minimum drinking age of 21 is not the solution. It's part of the problem...
Then, thanks in large measure to intense lobbying by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Congress in 1984 effectively blackmailed states into hiking the minimum drinking age to 21 by passing a law that tied compliance to the distribution of federal-aid highway funds--an amount that will average $690 million per state this year. There is no doubt that the law, which achieved full 50-state compliance in 1988, saved lives, but it had the unintended consequence of creating a covert culture around alcohol as the young adult's forbidden fruit...
...reporting at colleges around the country, I did not meet any presidents or deans who felt that the 21-year age minimum helps their efforts to curb the abuse of alcohol on their campuses. Quite the opposite. They thought the law impeded their efforts since it takes away the ability to monitor and supervise drinking activity...