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...These were people in the problem-drinker category," says lead researcher John Cunningham, senior scientist with the Canadian Center on Addiction & Mental Health. He explained that before they used the website, subjects were typically consuming 22 alcoholic drinks per week. "They drink enough to risk health consequences but are not severely dependent...
...range that is believed to have neutral or even potentially positive health consequences. For example, cutting back from 21 drinks a week to 14 puts a man in the range that is considered moderate by U.S.-government guidelines. For women, the recommendation is no more than seven drinks per week. "It's a way to get people to think about drinking and motivate them to change if they think they are drinking too much," says Cunningham...
Tenenbaum will appeal if the motion for a retrial is denied and has already requested in the motion that the damages be reduced to the minimum amount—$750 per song, for a total of $22,500—if the court does not grant him a new trial, according to Nesson...
Across the country, local Census offices are taking applications. There's a 28-question test involved in nabbing one of the temporary positions, which pay between $10 and $25 per hour depending on where you live and entail plenty of evening and weekend shifts, since that's when people tend to be at home. Four days of training teach everything from interviewing and personal safety to the history and importance of the Census - it's not only about determining seats in Congress, but also about how to allocate some $400 billion in federal funding. (See questions and answers about retirement...
...Kremlin adopted new minimum-price standards for vodka that will nearly double the cost of a half-liter bottle of the national spirit, from $1.69 to $3. The move, part of President Dmitri Medvedev's anti-alcoholism campaign, is designed to curb Russians' excessive drinking. With a per capita alcohol consumption twice as high as that of the U.S. and an active underground market for homemade alcohol (known as samogon), Russians aren't about to give up their vodka so easily. The 2010 price hikes are just the latest battle in Russia's centuries-long war against the demon drink...