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Five years after a School of Public Health (SPH) study focused national attention on college drinking, binge drinking remains at dangerously high levels, according to a follow-up study by Dr. Henry Wechsler released this month...
...Wechsler found that 42.7 percent of college students are binge drinkers-barely down from 44.1 percent in 1993. The survey defines binge drinking as four drinks at a time for women, five at a time...
Going smaller is the strategy devised by IMAX's co-CEOs, Bradley Wechsler, 46, and Richard Gelfond, 42, two former investment bankers who were part of a group that acquired IMAX for $90 million in 1994. They saw in the Canadian firm a sleepy moneymaker. IMAX, founded in 1967, was "run like a candy store by its five original founders," says Wechsler. "There was really no business discipline." Since then, revenues have doubled, to $158.5 million in 1997, while profits have increased, to $20.7 million from a loss of $11.6 million in 1994. In the first quarter, revenues were...
...Henry Wechsler of the Harvard School of Public Health, author of a national study on drinking, has defined binge drinking as "five or more drinks in a row one or more times during a two-week period for men, and four or more drinks in a row one or more times during a two-week period for women...
...Wechsler data (as well as simple observation by Masters, Senior Tutors and others close to the college life here) certainly establish that drinking is a serious concern here," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said yesterday in an e-mail message...