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...this month's issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, researchers recruited 42 adults: half were between the ages of 50 and 74, and half were aged 25 to 35. The participants were given either alcoholic drinks - roughly equivalent to a couple of glasses of wine - or placebo beverages, then asked to perform tasks designed to test their motor skills. They were also asked to rate their level of intoxication on a scale of 1 to 10. While the older people were more impaired by the alcohol, they also consistently underestimated their drunkenness. That may be because...
...care providers ask their patients more probing questions about alcohol consumption. Too often, she says, the issue is addressed perfunctorily: "Do you drink?" Check. "Socially?" Check. Then the doctor moves on. Instead, Nixon thinks providers should instigate a conversation, asking questions that raise self-awareness: Are you still having wine with dinner? How much? Why? "It doesn't make you 'old' to monitor your drinking," Nixon says. Just smart...
Easier credit fueled a rush of small business start-ups and car sales (admittedly the last thing São Paulo's insufferable traffic needed). Even the wine market, once a purely upscale domain, has been democratized. São Paulo wine retailer Expand has seen sales of its mid-priced bottles jump 25% each of the past few years, and it has opened new stores in provincial cities like Fortaleza, where beer and cachaça (cane liquor) were once the only tipples. Expand's owner, Otávio Piva de Albuquerque, says he spends as much time helping...
...asked others, and they said, "There's no detention for that." So that's kind of an excuse.' REZA SABERI, father of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was reportedly arrested in Tehran for buying a bottle of wine and was last heard from...
...more gung-ho, you or your husband?" Orman asked knowingly. "You had a bottle of wine and got tipsy? Did you go to bed that night and have fun?" Her producers groaned in the control booth...