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...Antonia Novello--who replaced C. Everett Koop as the "national physician" in March 1990--said that half the children in junior high school and high school drink alcohol regularly, despite the national minimum drinking...
...Novello proceeded to attack beer advertisement for blending images of beer with scenes of young people engaged in potentially dangerous sports--many of which require high levels of bodily coordination...
...Advertisements have to be looked upon much more closely by parents and kids," according to Novello, who added that 69 percent of boating accidents, as well as many ski injuries, are alcohol-related...
...such Foundation guests as United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author James Baldwin, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Governor of Puerto Rico Raphael Hernandez-Colon, National Science Foundation Head Walter Massey, Northern Ireland leader John Hume, Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, scholar-athlete Arthur Ashe (to name a few), to panel discussions, films and debates on every conceivable aspect of race relations...
...elders are beginning to treat teenage drinking with the seriousness it deserves. The White House office coordinating the Administration's drug-control policy has recently broadened its mandate to include alcohol abuse, and is scheduled to give President Bush a strategy for combatting the problem by January. Surgeon General Novello is among those who are trying to eliminate loopholes in states' minimum-age laws that make it easy for minors to buy and drink booze. For example, 35 states allow minors to possess alcohol under certain circumstances -- with parental consent, for instance, or in private residences. And 19 states have...