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...illogical to grant young people the right to judge and alter the sobriety of others when they cannot legally do the same for themselves, just as it is absurd to allow 18-year-olds to create new citizens when they can't celebrate the birth with even a sip of champagne...
...study, researchers from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School compared the drinking habits of 340 men and women who had suffered recent heart attacks with those of healthy people of the same age and sex. The scientists found that people who sip one to three drinks a day are about half as likely to suffer heart attacks as nondrinkers are. The apparent source of the protection: those who drank alcohol had higher blood levels of high-density lipoproteins, or HDLs, the so-called good cholesterol, which is known to ward off heart disease...
...Friday night in the heart of old Shanghai, the crowd at J.J.'s is working up a postsocialist sweat. Men in suits and ties gyrate with fashionably dressed young women; at small tables newly affluent entrepreneurs sip drinks between calls on cellular phones. The young people at J.J.'s revel in something unprecedented for China: personal and professional liberation. Those with the will and skill to take advantage of economic reform are freer than ever to seek their fortune, their mate and their own identity...
...Campus and the New Haven Green on College Street, is one classy dinner spot within reach. A well-stocked bar and elegant decor are the highlights of this popular New Haven eatery. Roasting game spins in over an open flame and patrons munch on thin bread sticks and sip white wine. Scuzzi, a very good if pricey Italian dinner restaurant, offers a wide variety of desserts, prepared to please both the palate and the eye. Located across from the Yale Art Galley on Chapel Street, Scuzzi features a delightful pumpkin pecan as well as an extensive, highbrow ice cream selection...
...special attraction coffee holds in an academic community stems from the rampant francophilia of American intellectuals; and francophiles are to coffee-houses as pedophiles are to elementary schools. The coffee house offers the satisfaction of the francophiles' basic urges--to prattle pretentiously, indulge in snobbery, and, of course, sip du cafe...