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St. Paul may soon pass a social host ordinance that punishes adults who knowingly allow parties, where minors are drinking. That includes adults who aren't even there, including landlords. "They bear some of the responsibility to ensure it doesn't continue," said St. Paul Council Member Russ Stark.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State University said the body of a missing student has been found at the bottom of a stairwell about 75 yards from where he was last seen alive. The university said tonight that 18-year-old freshman Joseph Dado, of Latrobe, was found dead at about 6 p.m. at the Hosler Building. University police said it looks like Mr. Dado fell about 15 feet to the concrete below.

Drinking a bottle of wine or five pints of beer in an evening instead of over the course of a week gives you a big waist, British researchers say. They found the pattern of drinking rather than the total amount of alcohol consumed has a greater effect on waist size. In women the effect was even more pronounced... The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, was presented at the European Society of Cardiology in Barcelona. The team studied almost 30,000 men and women in Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic ...

The passing of Ted Kennedy has tormented me all this long day. It started with drinking whiskey for breakfast. ... Let Teddy not be remembered as a great man, for he wasn’t. Laud him not for being bipartisan, for he did so only to incrementally advance his autocratic nightmares. And let him not bask in the glow of his older brothers who had some notion of right, whereas Teddy knew only expediency. We should remember Ted Kennedy for those elements of his character that defined him best. For accusing a Supreme Court nominee of ...

Saturday, July 18th, was the fortieth anniversary of the day that Mary Jo Kopechne drowned at Chappaquiddick (an island part of Edgartown,Massachusetts) in a car driven off a bridge by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.). And, still, questions linger. What did Kennedy do that night? Was he intoxicated? Why wasn’t he prosecuted? The one question still pondered by political observers on all sides: did what is known universally known as “the Chappadquiddick incident” keep Kennedy from being elected President? Clearly, it did. For younger readers who know Kennedy -- now 77 and battling cancer -- primarily as the premier voice...

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If it weren’t for the National Enquirer’s outstanding work on the John Edwards “Baby Mama” story, this new story would easy to laugh off. But nobody’s laughing. Especially Barack Obama. ...

Passers-by were shocked to see rowdy bikini-clad students struggling to stand up and vomiting at midday on a Sunday afternoon. This year for the first time in 80 years the garden party, organised by the Wyverns, an all-male Magdalene College drinking society, had to be held in a new location after officials banned students from holding the event on university land.

Koreans Drink 110 bottles of Beer and 74 Bottles of Soju Annually A survey has found that Korean adults drink an average of 110 bottles of beer and 74 bottles of soju annually. The survey also reveled that the export of Korean alcoholic beverages rose 23 percent from last year. The National Tax Service announced that the total consumption of alcoholic beverages in Korea amounted to 3.39 million kiloliters last year, up 3.2 percent from 3.29 kiloliters in 2007. In terms of the type of beverage consumed, soju and beer consumption increased 4.3 percent and 3.8 percent, respectively. When converted...

<p>Police arrested a 28-year-old Petah Tikvah man for drunk driving late Friday night after he was caught driving erratically on the highway while having sexual intercourse with a female passenger.</p>

For the past 20 years, the U.S. has maintained a Minimum Legal Drinking Age of 21 (MLDA21), with little public debate about the wisdom of this policy. Recently, however, more than 100 college and university presidents signed the Amethyst Initiative, a public statement calling for "an informed and dispassionate public debate over the effects of the 21-year-old drinking age." SNIP Our research compares traffic fatality rates in states before and after they changed their MLDA from 18 to 21. In contrast to all earlier work, however, we examined separately the impact in states that adopted an MLDA21 on their own...

Having a supportive social network enhances the health benefits of having a few drinks, new research from Japan suggests. The study of Japanese men years found that moderate to light alcohol consumption, coupled with high levels of social support, were linked to lower rates of heart disease and stroke. “But remember,” Dr Hiroyasu Iso from Osaka University noted in a statement, “this beneficial effect of social support is confined to light-to-moderate drinking. Heavy drinking is risky irrespective of social support level.” In a report in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, the researchers note that light to moderate drinking...

SALEM — It's hard to imagine a less likely place for three college students to do some underage drinking than the parking lot of a police station. But that's exactly what three Salem State College students were caught doing early Saturday morning. Now they'll spend the next six months on unsupervised probation, after admitting they were sharing a bottle of rum right outside the Salem police headquarters on Margin Street. "You guys picked a great place to drink," Judge Richard Mori told them in Salem District Court yesterday. It all started when Thomas McCarthy, 18, of 115 Weatherly Drive; Wayne...

CBS News Coverage of the Presidential Address to the Joint Session of Congress9:00pm - 10:00pm President Obama outlines challenges facing the nation and lays out his priorities for meeting them in an address delivered in the House chamber before…

The Inauguration Day 2009 Drinking Game Drink Every Time Someone Says: “Historic” “Monumental” “Kennedy” “Lincoln” “Change” (as a noun) “Most anticipated inauguration in history” The name of a celebrity who thinks their opinion matters. Drink Every Time: Joe Biden’s hairplugs are awkwardly noticeable. You see Oprah crying. W glances at his watch. You see a mediocre looking chick with political aspirations in the crowd. Chris Matthews appears to get a boner. You see Obama’s face on a t-shirt. A white guy pretends to know the words to a Black Eyed Peas song. Keith Olbermann comes off as a smug, pretentious...

Drew University, like many colleges, is working harder to deter underage drinking, but that didn't stop students younger than 21 from drinking heavily at campus parties Labor Day weekend. "The parties are in dorms, on top of buildings, wherever people find an ample place where they're not going to be bothered," said 18-year-old Dean Shtainhorn of Millburn, who admitted to experimenting with alcohol. The Madison campus is not unlike colleges across the country dealing with the problem of underage alcohol consumption and binge drinking. That is why Drew University president Robert Weisbuch said he joined the Amethyst Initiative, a national...

Pilot Accused Of Drinking, Replaced On Port Columbus Flight Wednesday, January 7, 2009 5:52 PM Print Story E-mail Story COLUMBUS, Ohio — 10TV News learned on Wednesday that a Southwest Airlines pilot has been placed on paid leave after being accused of drinking before getting on a flight at Port Columbus International Airport. According to a Port Columbus Police report, a passenger approached the pilot on Tuesday afternoon, saying he "smelled and looked drunk," 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported. The pilot then went to a restroom and called off sick, the report said. The pilot told police that he was not...

Drinking a pint of beer or two measures of gin or vodka on a nightly basis can also have the same effect. The warning appears to conflict with other studies which suggest moderate alcohol intake can help combat heart disease. Although the link has not been definitively explained, it is thought the alcohol damages a person's DNA, making them susceptible to the risk of cancer. Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK, with more than 36,500 people diagnosed each year and 16,000 deaths. More than 3,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with liver cancer each...

THE suspected museum thief who was impaled by a sharp spike on the top of a security fence in his rectum for two hours earlier this month says he did not feel any pain because he was drunk. He denied trying to break into the museum, but claimed he had been in the museum grounds to sleep off a drinking session. Speaking from the Cambridge West home he shares with his parents and siblings, Siyanda Pasiwe, 32, said he had been drinking somewhere in town that evening. But because it was late and he was drunk, he decided to go...

A 28-year-old Russian female, who visited Dubai on a tourist visa, and a 30-year-old male citizen of Lebanon, a salesman in a local store, were put on trial for drinking juice in a public place in the daytime during Muslim fasting. The police caught the two people red-handed at a gas station in Dubai, Emirat.ru reports with reference to Gulf News. In accordance with the Federal Penal Code of the United Arab Emirates, a public intake of food and beverages during daytime hours of the month of Ramadan is forbidden by Article 313. The article stipulates the punishment in the...

At age 18, an American can enlist in the military, vote, sign a contract, get married, have an operation -- hey, in California, a 14-year-old can have an abortion without telling her parents -- but he cannot buy a beer. Not legally, anyway. It makes absolutely no sense, and it is shameful that my generation, which won the right to vote at age 18, continues to infantilize people who are allowed to make life-and-death decisions on every issue, save one. We believe in rights -- except for college-age kids -- even if they are serving in the military. Enter the...

College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus. The movement called the Amethyst Initiative began quietly recruiting presidents more than a year ago to provoke national debate about the drinking age. "This is a law that is routinely evaded," said John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College in Vermont who started the organization. "It is a law that the people at whom it is directed believe is unjust...

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Chapel Hill, N.C. (AHN) -- A new study found that stopping drinking alcohol can be detrimental to one's mental health.According to the findings of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studies performed on mice who voluntarily drank alcohol for 28 days showed that when their alcohol consumption was stopped, it caused depression and a negative mood that set in 14 or more days after their systems were cleared of alcohol. This led scientist to believe that people who quit drinking, even moderate drinkers, will experience "negative mood states" days or weeks...

A Hillsborough sheriff's deputy who said he had always wanted to spend his life in law enforcement used a Taser on his wife then held his service pistol to her head before he was arrested and held for mental evaluation, deputies say. Carlos Thomas Tanner, 38, a 10-year veteran of the sheriff's office, was arrested at his Dover home about 1:45 a.m. Monday. He is charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor battery-domestic violence. Tanner was taken in under the state's Baker Act because he threatened to harm himself if he were arrested, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie...

Drinking Alcohol Cuts Risk Of Developing Rheumatoid Arthritis In Half, Study Suggests ScienceDaily (Jun. 5, 2008) — Alcohol cuts the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis by up to 50%, reveals research published ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. The Scandinavian researchers base their findings on more than 2750 people taking part in two separate studies, which assessed environmental and genetic risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis. Over half the participants (1650) had the disease and had been matched for age, sex, and residential locality with randomly selected members of the general public. All participants were quizzed about...

One in three employees admits they have been to work with a hangover and more than one in 10 has been drunk at their desk, a study suggests. Staff said they made mistakes, struggled to concentrate and had to go home early as a result of drinking. Four out of five employers say alcohol is the biggest threat to the well-being of their staff, according to a survey for Norwich Union Healthcare. Alcohol Concern said bosses needed to be aware of symptoms of alcohol abuse. One thousand people and 250 businesses were interviewed about drinking habits for the survey. Of...

Some Teens Also Believe Mountain Dew Will Stop PregnancyORLANDO, Fla. -- A recent survey that found some Florida teens believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy has prompted lawmakers to push for an overhaul of sex education in the state. The survey showed that Florida teens also believe that smoking marijuana will prevent a person from getting pregnant. State lawmakers said the myths are spreading because of Florida's abstinence-only sex education, Local 6 reported. They are proposing a bill that would require a more comprehensive approach, the report said....

WAUSAU, Wis. - Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands. But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That's because the keg contained root beer. The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties. It has gained fame on YouTube.com. Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because...

Photographs of the novelist Kingsley Amis, taken between his fiftieth birthday in April 1972 and his death in October 1995, sometimes show a resplendent sheen on his forehead, nose, and cheeks. This is what some people call “sweat alcohol,” a common problem among heavy drinkers of shorts and beer. On both of the occasions on which I had the pleasure to meet this funny and distinguished man, he drank whisky throughout lunch and by the afternoon was wearing that slightly bewildered, slightly aggressive, slightly penitent expression known as the “Scotch gaze,” a look familiar to all who have walked the...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina lawmaker says underage military servicemen and women should be allowed to drink alcohol. Representative Fletcher Smith has sponsored legislation that would allow alcohol purchases if service members younger than 21 show a military identification card to a bartender or store clerk. State law prohibits the sale or possession of alcoholic beverages by anyone under 21. Changing the law would cost South Carolina to lose federal highway money. South Carolina raised the drinking age to 21 from 18 to comply with federal law in 1984. Safety advocates oppose the Greenville Democrat's bill. They say many...

However, Bush’s vow to veto any tax increases could have ramifications for Democratic leaders who have promised to pay for any new proposals they advance. The speech drew sharp jabs from Democrats. “I thought he had stopped drinking,” House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel , D-N.Y., said in response to Bush’s comments on extending tax cuts. “I think there are certain things that the president just has to say, even though he knows that there’s absolutely no chance.”

The frustration of proving one's age to buy things like alcohol and tobacco does not end when you reach the appropriate legal age. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have a youthful appearance are forever burdened with having to carry a state-issued ID card to every place where we might want to buy alcohol or tobacco. Over the past few years, we've been gradually subjected to another, more intrusive ID-related hassle -- that of electronic drivers license scanning. It's one thing when a government representative scans your driver's license; it's another thing entirely when a restaurant does it,...

Anti-drinking ads which show stupid drunk behaviour inadvertently glamorise Medical Studies/Trials Published: Monday, 10-Dec-2007 . .   Advertising campaigns in Britain meant to discourage young people from drinking to excess have come in for some harsh criticism from researchers and comes at a time when experts are saying alcohol abuse is a widespread problem among the young. The researchers say adverts which focus on the idiotic behaviour carried out when people are drunk may be "catastrophically misconceived" and may backfire by inadvertently glamorising the habit. In a study, led by a research team at the University of Bath, researchers...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER — The students of a girls’ school in Narhwan now have fresh water to enjoy in between lessons. A local contractor completed a well project at the school, funded by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Dec. 6, 45 days after breaking ground on the project. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by Lt. Gen. Abud, the commander of the BaghdadOperations Center, Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem, the commander of the 1st National Police Division, and several leaders from the 3rd Infantry Division. “This project will directly impact the 3,500 students who attend the three schools...

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. college football games present students with regular opportunities to drink more -- especially high-profile games, a study found. The study, published in Addictive Behaviors, found students drink alcohol more on football game days than on well-known drinking days such as New Year's Eve and Halloween. Study co-authors Kim Fromme of the University of Texas at Austin and Dan Neal of Kent State University tracked students during the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 University of Texas at Austin football seasons. In the latter season, the football team garnered a national championship. The researchers also found levels...

You have to feel for the residents. These students are there for about four years .. nine months every year .. and they're really upset because the Statesboro City Council has put the brakes on some of the wilder drinking happy hours at area bars. Soooooo .... A couple of bar owners run for the city council, and the students launch a voter registration drive to get them elected. Students voting? Fine. And it is so good to see the students at Georgia Southern have finally found something that will drive them to the polls ... preserving their ability to...

Author: Letting Kids Drink Early Reduces BingingATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Over dinner recently, Anna Peele recalls one of the first times she drank alcohol. "I was like 14 or 15," Peele says. "I ordered a beer and they served me." She had just finished her freshman year of high school and was traveling in Greece with family friends. "We would just have wine with dinner," Peele says. "In Greece it's so not a big deal." Anna Peele's parents allowed her to drink at family functions and social events when she was in high school. While that experience would cause some...

Shock figures show 11 to 13-year-olds drinking twice as much alcohol as they did five years agoLast updated at 15:02pm on 31st August 2007  Tens of thousands of 11-year-olds are getting drunk at least once a month   A "hard core" of young teenagers is drinking to increasingly dangerous levels every week, it has emerged.   Tens of thousands of 11-year-olds are also getting drunk at least once a month, despite a drive to cut soaring numbers of young drinkers. Four out of 10 pupils aged 11-15 have tried smoking at least once, and a majority of young smokers are...

Over the strong objection of federal safety officials, a quiet movement to lower the legal drinking age to 18 is taking root as advocates argue that teenagers who are allowed to vote and fight for their country should also be able to enjoy a beer or two. The proposal, which is the subject of a national petition drive by the National Youth Rights Association, has been studied in a handful of states in recent years, including Florida, Wisconsin, Vermont and Missouri, where supporters are pushing a ballot initiative. Opponents of the idea point to a reported rise in binge drinking...

Women in their 40s are more likely to drink potentially harmful amounts on a night out than younger people, researchers in Cardiff have found. While men's drinking peaked in their late 20s, women's alcohol intake reached its heights among the over-40s. In a year, 893 people were breathalysed late at night in the city centre for the Cardiff University study. It found 40% of men and 20% of women had drunk over a level which put them more at risk of injury and ill-health. Researchers said their findings came as "something of a surprise". Binge-drinking is defined as eight units...

Report: Drunk astronauts were allowed to fly BY MARTIN MERZER NASA allowed at least two astronauts to fly into space even though they were so drunk that flight surgeons considered them a safety risk, according to a report published Thursday by Aviation Week and Space Technology.In a brief account reported on the publication's website, the trade journal said an independent health panel commissioned by NASA also found a pattern of ''heavy use of alcohol'' by astronauts before launch.The report did not include any details about which astronauts or space programs were involved or how recently the problems might have...

Binge-drinking 'causes drop in omega-3 levels' By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 2:07am BST 25/07/2007 Binge-drinking reduces levels of essential fatty acids which play crucial roles in concentration and memory, scientists have found. Research shows that not only do heavy drinkers need to consume more omega-3 essential fatty acids (EFAs), but that their diets contain lower amounts of the important nutrients. Omega-3 is broken down into the fatty acids which form the structure of brain cell membranes and carry electrical signals between brain cells. Oily fish such as mackerel are a good source of omega-3, which has been shown...

While recently awaiting the arrival of a new baby, Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius found herself not so much restricted by her bulging belly as by the opinions of those around her - especially when it came to alcohol consumption. Somehow my body became public property when I got pregnant. People I barely know elatedly rub my belly when they’d feel highly uncomfortable giving me a hug. Then there’s the rest of the public who feel it’s their prerogative to tell me what I am allowed to eat, drink and do. Cultural taboos vary country to country, yet you’d think that medical advice...

CHICAGO - More than 30 percent of American adults have abused alcohol or suffered from alcoholism at some point in their lives, and few have received treatment, according to a new government study. Alcoholics who got treatment first received it, on average, at about age 30 — eight years after they developed dependence on drinking, researchers reported. "That's a big lag," especially combined with the fact that only 24 percent of alcoholics reported receiving any treatment at all, said study co-author Bridget Grant of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The treatment rate for alcoholics was slightly less...

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Beer-loving Germany warned on Tuesday that binge-drinking among teenagers was rising sharply. Beer-loving Germany warned on Tuesday that binge-drinking among teenagers was rising sharply, adding fuel to a national debate over whether the country should tighten its alcohol consumption laws. A new government-sponsored survey showed that half of the country's 16-17 year-olds had indulged in binge-drinking in the last month, up from 40 percent a year ago, said Sabine Baetzing, the government's drugs commissioner. Binge-drinking is defined as consuming at least five alcoholic drinks in one sitting. "The rise is mainly due to an increase in the consumption of beer,...

HOBOKEN - When police suspected a St. Patrick's Day parade reveler of carrying a plastic cup containing beer, they slapped him with a $250 fine for drinking in public as part of a citywide crackdown to prevent rowdy and lewd behavior from ruining the day. Because the officer had not checked a box on his ticket requiring a court appearance, Hoboken resident Stephen DeSimone, 27, simply mailed his fine a short time later.

Drinking just two alcoholic drinks a day when you have breast cancer fuels the growth of tumours, a study says. It has long-been known alcohol increases the risk of developing cancer but the effect of drinking once cancer is present is less established. A University of Mississippi team found giving mice the equivalent of two to four drinks a day doubled the normal growth of a tumour after four weeks. Cancer patients are often just told to moderate drinking. Alcohol has been linked to cancer before