Word: perring
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...would buy Sir Liam Donaldson a pint these days? Not many Brits, I expect. The chief medical officer's proposal to tackle the great British scourge of binge drinking - a minimum price of 75 cents per unit of alcohol - was shot down by almost everyone from 10 Downing Street to the bloke propping up the bar at the Slug and Lettuce...
...Britain's present - twentysomethings with end-stage liver disease, "binge black spots," city centers carpeted with vomit - also Thailand's future? It doesn't have to be. Thailand's per capita alcohol consumption is still half that of Britain's, according to the most recent figures from the World Health Organization. But Thailand could learn at least two lessons from Britain's battle with the bottle...
...gambling do not exhibit such control. The study began in February 2005 and observed 3,445 subscribers to BWIN, an Austria-based gaming Web site. The participants’ poker outcomes were analyzed over the course of two years, and the number of chips they bought and sold per session was tallied. The study, which investigated online gambling as “a potential object of addictive behavior,” concluded that the availability of Internet gambling is not correlated to gambling addiction. “The very first thing we learned, which we didn’t expect...
...Compared to the interstate highway system and the massive network of domestic airlines, high-speed rail is more energy-efficient and less costly per mile and provides an easy, efficient, and safe method of transportation. As such, we believe that a new national program of high-speed rail construction will be a worthwhile investment in infrastructure and job creation in the midst of the worst recession in more than two decades. In addition to the immediate benefits of job creation in the construction industry, the expansion of passenger rail travel will also provide jobs far into the future across...
...Somalia's shores. A 2005 United Nations Environmental Program report cited uranium radioactive and other hazardous deposits leading to a rash of respiratory ailments and skin diseases breaking out in villages along the Somali coast. According to the U.N., at the time of the report, it cost $2.50 per ton for a European company to dump these types of materials off the Horn of Africa, as opposed to $250 per ton to dispose of them cleanly in Europe...