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...There was no room at any inn, so people camped in the streets and squares, while the city tested its gift for hospitality. Romans were urged to open their doors, take people in; the government set up thousands of cots in soccer stadiums, the convention center and makeshift tent cities, handed out bottles of water and blankets and pillows that had been stockpiled in anticipation of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius...
...still do their drinking when adults aren't around. But many parents have concluded that teen drinking is inevitable, and given the options, they prefer to have their kids drink at home under adult supervision rather than in a park or parking lot. Some parents even play host to "tent" parties, at which they confiscate car keys and provide a place for kids to spend the night. Public opinion, however, seems to be against that approach, and state and local governments are beginning to enact laws designed to stem underage drinking by targeting adults. Adults face six months in jail...
...kids start drinking," she says. "If teens drink, they usually drink to excess. And you can ask for their keys, but they have a spare or give you a key that isn't even to their car." Ellison speaks from painful experience. In 2002, a local parent supervised a tent party at which kids supposedly surrendered their keys. Nevertheless, several of them left the home at 3 a.m. and drove to the apartment where Ellison's son Doug, 20, lived apart from his parents. All the young people continued to drink, and later that morning, when Doug went...
...Under Cornum, the hospital has been thoroughly modernized. Today's combat doctors are likely wired to e-mail and cell phones. Holcomb, who now heads the Army's Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, says he routinely gets an e-mail "from some doctor in a tent outside Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb...
After Dubya’s re-election victory last November, it became clear that liberal politics in this country are suffering a great deal. Those on the radical left have become utterly disempowered. The solution, it seems to me, is to have a large tent, not a small one. And there’s room in that tent for some baby-back ribs...