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...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 Clarke last week blamed booze for the 6% rise in violent crime in the third quarter of 2004. "We are building a massive problem for the future if we do not really hammer alcohol...
...Scholars Association are calling for a boycott of the polls, questioning their legitimacy and insisting that elections can't be held as long as U.S. troops remain in the country. They may share some of the political goals and concerns of the insurgency, but they insist that a non-violent call for a boycott is a legitimate democratic protest tactic...
...Violent as these storms were, they also did some good. For the first time in recent memory, snowpack in much of the West is running well ahead of average, and that signals relief for the drought-plagued region. Even so, says NOAA drought specialist Douglas LeComte, it's too early to proclaim the long dry spell completely over. Snow is still scant in the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, he notes, adding, "It will take more than one wet winter to refill the reservoirs along the Colorado River." --By J. Madeleine Nash
...coming Sunday, Iraqis are poised to hold an historic—if uncertain—election to pick a 275-member National Assembly. This will likely be the final chance for the United States to establish a legitimate Iraqi government in a country that has become increasingly chaotic and violent during the last several months of occupation...
...year-old assembly-line worker at shoe manufacturer Stella International located in the southern city of Dongguan in Guangdong province. Chen returned to her home in Shaanxi province in disgrace earlier this month after spending eight months in jail for participating in a labor protest that turned violent. "I wasn't thinking of breaking things or blowing things up," says Chen of the April rampage, during which about a thousand workers sabotaged machinery, trashed company offices and overturned a car. "But the boss hadn't paid us our money. It was impulsive, but there was nothing else we could...