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...weekend nights because of the hassle from rowdy drunks. "Increasing opening hours is bad," he says. "The city on Friday and Saturday nights is total mayhem." Many people blame price wars among pubs for encouraging binge drinking. In Lace Market, the city's most popular nightspot, a gin and tonic is $2.70, and a butterscotch schnapps shot is $2.40 - compelling prices in a university town. Moreover, the government itself seems to lack a coherent alcohol policy. Amid reports implicating drink in 13,000 violent incidents near pubs and clubs each week - and 47% of all violent crimes - Home Secretary Charles...
That's the rap--and the rep--associated with caffeine, the recreational chemical of choice for nearly 60% of Americans. But what of the received wisdom is true? Is caffeine a scourge, a tonic, a little bit of both...
...honey-roasted catfish, and lamb that quite literally melts in your mouth are served with organic vegetables grown in the hotel garden and wild herbs picked in local lava fields. On weekends, Reyjkavik's hip set descend to drink in the views and taste the excellent minty gin-and-tonic sorbets - a palate-cleansing aperitif, and a nod to the British who occupied Iceland in 1940. That's not to say you should stay indoors. Local company Snjófell (tel: [354] 435 6783) offers adrenaline-fueled snowmobile trips to Snaefells' 1,463-m summit - but no through passage...
...human touch overrated? Are concepts like "death with dignity" just feel-good lies? Funny, probing and unsentimental, House may shock the systems of viewers used to sweetie M.D.s like ER's Dr. Carter. But as an honest look at techno-medicine and the prerogatives of genius, it's a tonic. --By James Poniewozik
...tonic I offer here does not pretend to solve every problem, or even identify every problem—and maybe more questions are raised than answered—but hopefully it clears some congestion, and keeps the patient on life support until all of us are really ready to operate...