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...half were aged 25 to 35. The participants were given either alcoholic drinks - roughly equivalent to a couple of glasses of wine - or placebo beverages, then asked to perform tasks designed to test their motor skills. They were also asked to rate their level of intoxication on a scale of 1 to 10. While the older people were more impaired by the alcohol, they also consistently underestimated their drunkenness. That may be because over the years, people become inured to the effects of social drinking, says Dr. Sara Jo Nixon, the senior researcher on the paper. "It's a subtle...
...This is not to say that the country’s best sports stars don’t take pleasure in their work—professional athletes devote hours to perfecting their skills for more than money. But, the NLL benefits from its lack of scale and small-market feel. Blazers rookie Gary Bining doesn’t care how big the league gets, as long as it brings in appreciative fans...
...School of Arts and Sciences, would take a significant toll on both financial resources and time, even in better financial times.“Even if we had all the money in the world, these are things that take serious amounts of time,” Greenblatt says.For large-scale projects, Greenblatt says, it is important to keep discussion moving and not lose sight of long-term goals.“It’s very easy to lose track,” Greenblatt says. “And I’m encouraged by the fact that the University...
CareLink operates much like a health-maintenance organization for its 55,000 clients, negotiating prices with health-care providers and then billing clients on a sliding scale according to their income. (Pat's CareLink bills run around $40 a month.) And it puts a heavy emphasis on preventive care; on Pat's first examination at an austere CareLink clinic in northwestern San Antonio, he got tetanus and flu shots as part of the deal. Another stroke of good fortune: Pat's kidney doctor, Smolens, is a participating specialist with CareLink...
...scale of Scotland's alcohol-misuse problem is shocking," said Nicola Sturgeon, Health Secretary to Scotland's devolved government. And shockingly expensive, costing Scotland $3.2 billion a year in lost productivity and additional expenditure for health services, the police and other public-sector institutions. Scots are the world's eighth-heaviest drinkers, and a casual visitor to Glasgow could easily conclude that they top the league in public Bacchanalian drunkenness. (See pictures of whisky-making in Scotland...