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...spent the next summer in Vancouver as well, having stayed dry for the whole school year. After imbibing liters (it's Canada, come on) of various fermented fluids, I finally got buzzed. Not by the sweet-tasting peach, plum, cherry or pear ciders that were so easy to chug down but still packed an eight percent punch, no. It was on my last afternoon in the lab, when we adjourned for beers. Four beers in less than half an hour was all it took to make me a little wobbly (hardly out of control, though) on the stairs...
Back in Cambridge, I commented to my newly-legal roommate oh-so-politically-correctly about the wealth of "alcoholically-enabled" people we saw on our way to dinner. When we arrived at the restaurant, the hostess mentioned the enticing prospect of white peach margaritas. I couldn't resist. I had to play the game once more. I asked for a pitcher of said dreamy substance. "You all have ID, right?" she sighed boredly. "Yep," we said. And that was it. Soon, with that thrill that only the non-legal know, we too were alcoholically-enabled. Sorry, elementary school, you lost...
...some of the country's richest farmlands turned to stew. In Monterey County particularly, Nature brought herself to ruin: winds wrecked the orchards; floods loosened the vines and dragged crops out of the fields, which were too wet for tractors to plant new crops. Bees stopped pollinating, leaving peach trees and cherry trees barren. Even the cows were troubled, growing stingy with milk when their feet were wet and their routines disrupted...
...Frances G. Schwartz, an attorney in Walsh's firm, was fined $20,000 and received 24 months probation and mandatory drug testing as prescribed by probation authorities. A. Eric Peach, a Dime loan originator, received 24 months probation, the first six months of which will be electronically monitored...
...Simon Haidar, manager at the Li'l Peach convenience store on Mass. Ave., says reforming the Blue Laws would hurt his business...