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...school sends young female health educators to brief sororities on the dangers of excessive drinking. Associate dean Bergen-Cico presided over a recent session for 40 members of Alpha Chi Omega. Among other things, she told them what many already knew from personal experience: weight-conscious women tend to skip meals before drinking, to conserve calories, making them more easily affected by alcohol. One simple solution: make sure they eat a hearty meal before they hit the bars. Patrick Kilcarr of Georgetown finds that nutrition information can be an effective tool. He asks the women he sees to tell...
Emerging into painful consciousness the next afternoon, I decide to salve my pounding head with a shopping spree (and half a bottle of aspirin). I skip the overpriced stores of Shangxiajiu and go to Dongshan district for cheap, brand-name Western garments. I then proceed to go mad, spending $106 on clothes, including a $7 leather "Gucci" wallet the clerk assures me was made in Italy?which must be what they're calling Shenzhen...
Curling consists of a duel between two teams of four—a lead, a second, a vice skip, and a skip (or captain). The teams follow that lineup while alternating who delivers the stones. While one player is delivering the first of two stones, the skip stands at the end of the ice to indicate the target while the other two may sweep in front of the stone if it appears to be lagging...
...It’s important that the right shots are called,” Crawford said. “If you call a shot and someone misses that shot, the skip has to figure out what the secondary shot is. You have to read what the rock is doing...
...tied them with one end to go, and their skip had to essentially draw to the button and he made the shot,” Crawford said...