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Those concerns were highlighted in 1993, when Henry Wechsler, a professor at the School of Public Health, released his now-famous study of binge drinking on college campuses. The study articulated a perception that had been growing for years without any hard scientific data--that binge drinking was much more prevalent on campuses than had been previously imagined...
...most important one the new council will face. The City Manager Robert W. Healy's contract is up for extension next year and Triantafillou was one of his major opponents. Under the current weak mayor system, the manager is more powerful than the council. He writes regulations and controls public works, public safety and city financing. Healy has successfully navigated the turbulent waters of city politics for 18 years, but he has fallen out of favor with several city councillors because of his lack of action to secure low-cost housing for city residents. Triantafillou was one of his most...
...wartime, the public clings to leadership," he said, warning that people might even become "too docile...
...idea that the government is supposed to be inefficient?" he asked. "The Soviet government had a weak hold on the public, but that did not make it less tyrannical...
...essentially static, thanks to large numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who are picking up the habit. Between 1965 and 1990, the percentage of Americans who smoked plummeted from 44 percent to 24.7 percent, a drop the CDC likes to cite as "one of the 10 most notable public health achievements of this century." Current figures are well above the agency's goal, which is to see only 15 percent of the population smoking by the year 2000. It doesn't look like that's going to happen, in part because young adults' smoking rates are on the upswing...