County to crack down on underage drinking
Lane County government is trying to iron out the wrinkles in a 1-year-old law meant to crack down on underage drinking. If changes to the rule are adopted next month, officials say the sheriff’s office will have an effective tool for discouraging parents and others from allowing illegal parties on …
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More than 100 minors ticketed at two underage drinking parties
Police busted two underage drinking parties in Des Plaines in the last four days, ticketing more than 105 minors for drinking inside a home and car wash.
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Binge drinking linked to brain damage 0
Binge drinking among young adults could cause serious damage to developing brains, according to a new study.
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Clean Water in Schools Crucial to Coachella Valley Students
Editor’s Note: Last week, New America Media reported on legislation that requires all California public schools to offer clean and free drinking water to their students in areas where meals are served, by July 1, 2011. The following commentary, written…
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FULL STORY: Two Brothers Die In Car Accident
EL PASO – A family is in mourning today after Luis and Andres Garcia, on the left side of the photo, died in a fatal car crash. read more
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Child Prodigy Heads to UConn
A 13-year-old child prodigy is heading to UConn where she plans to study medicine. But if you think she’s a one-trick pony, you’ve got another thing coming.
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Donations Needed For Joplin, MO Relief
Just over five weeks ago the city of Joplin, Missouri was devastated by an F-5 tornado.
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King’s head rejects drug claims
King’s College headmaster Bradley Fenner says reports that a group of students were caught doing drugs at the school’s ball are completely wrong.The details of exactly what happened at the private college’s ball have been the…
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It’s still just a game
As the madness of the college season neared completion and the ballplayers received the call that they would indeed be spending their summer on the eastern coast playing in the most prestigious college league in the country, only the “lucky” few whose teams didn’t make a run in the collegiate playoffs got a week off before setting their GPS devices for Cape Cod, Massachusetts and beginning their …
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News in Brief: Earth/Environment
Platypuses in trouble, toxins in lakes and a chemical link to early puberty in this week’s news
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Ipswich: New worries over plan to create haven for street drinkers
ipswich: The management company responsible for the town centre has raised new fears over the establishment of a tolerance area for street drinkers in the former Peter’s Ice Cream factory.
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Report: More N.C. residents having records expunged
More North Carolinians are having their criminal records erased, perhaps spurred by more employers doing background checks in a tight job market, according to a newspaper’s review.
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Energy drinks linked to substance abuse in survey of musicians
NEW YORK, June 26 — Frequent consumption of energy drinks has been linked to alcohol-related problems, binge drinking and prescription drug abuse among a very specific group of users — musicians, says a group of US researchers. In a survey examining substance use among 226 New York professional and amateur musicians aged 18-45, researchers found …
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Binge drinking dips at U of I, survey says
Iowa City, Ia. – Binge drinking among University of Iowa students has fallen to its lowest rate in 10 years, according to a survey released Wednesday.
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‘Super sand’ to purify drinking water
By Killugudi Jayaraman ,Bangalore, June 23: Scientists have developed a way to chemically transform ordinary sand into so-called “super sand” for improved purification of drinking water.
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Lower quality drinking water expected
The Palm Beach Health Department set to grant the city’s request to lower-quality drinking water standards.
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‘Super sand’ for better purification of drinking water
Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand — a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world — into a “super sand” with five times the filtering capacity of regular sand. The new material could be a low-cost boon for developing countries, where more than a billion people lack clean drinking water, according to a new article.
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‘Super sand’ for better purification of drinking water
( American Chemical Society ) Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand — a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world — into a “super sand” with five times the filtering capacity of regular sand. The new material could be a low-cost boon for developing countries, where more than a billion people lack clean drinking water, according to the …
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Report: Bret Frame’s family in shock by fatal accident, mother says “to the families, I’m so sorry”
Bret Frame’s parents are in shock by what police say happened Thursday afternoon just down the street from their Crooked Lake home: their son, Bret Frame was driving in speeds in the excess of 100 mph, hit a car, sent it feet in the air hitting a tree. One man died and another was in critical condition.
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Cockblocked By Shrooms! [Drunken Hookup Failures]
# drunkenhookupfailures Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase five heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go. More »
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A rich Parisian parade
David McCullough has ranged widely across American history, from early books about the Johnstown Flood, the Panama Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge to later, Pulitzer-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams. He gets around.
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Plymouth sheriff breaks up underage drinking party
LE MARS, Iowa — Twenty-one minors were charged with underage drinking Thursday after deputies broke up a party in rural Plymouth County.
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Drought in northwest China disrupts water supplies to 2 million people
Beijing, June 25 (ANI): A prolonged drought in China’s Gansu Province has disrupted drinking water supplies to over two million people, provincial authorities have said.
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NEW: AG strikes down fines for public drunkenness
Attorney General Martha Coakley has ruled against Foxboro’s bylaw to establish a fine for public drunkenness, passed at the March 7 Special Town Meeting.
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Take That’s Robbie Williams – in profile
With 57 million album sales and the most expensive contract ever signed by a UK artist under his belt, Robbie Williams is indisputably the biggest star of all the Take That boys.
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Study on guns and alcohol paints unflattering picture
Gun owners: Don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger. I must warn you, though, that the findings on gun ownership and risky alcohol behaviors published last week in the British Medical Journal do not paint an altogether flattering picture. You’re twice as likely as people who do not have a gun at home to down five or more drinks in a single sitting. read more
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Kitna tells of his sins
When Dallas Cowboys quarterback Jon Kitna addressed First Baptist Church services as the Father’s Day guest speaker, he didn’t spend any time talking about his resume of football victories.
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Trial for woman accused of killing Orland teen starts in Riverside
RIVERSIDE — Jury selection was completed Wednesday, and the trial of a Southern California woman accused of driving drunk and killing Orland resident Rachel Elliott in a 2008 crash began Thursday.
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Book review: Parisian education for 19th-century Americans detailed in McCullough’s “Greater Journey”
“Not all pioneers,” writes David McCullough, “went west.” Thus he establishes his theme, the intellectual frontier mentality that drove countless Americans to brave the rigors of a sea voyage and an alien culture to imbibe the Old World charm and history of Paris.
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Four Russians die after drinking Indonesia brew
BANJARMASIN, June 24, 2011 (AFP) – Four Russian sailors died and three others were hospitalised after drinking a potent alcoholic brew in Borneo island in Indonesia where their cargo ship had anchored, police said Friday.
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Strip club Pure Platinum’s liquor license revoked
Investigators from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) posted a Notice of Revocation at a local strip club, Pure Platinum, located at 2431 Pacific Highway in San Diego.
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Designer Galliano blames drugs, booze for anti-Jewish rant
Fashion designer John Galliano claimed Wednesday as he stood trial for anti-Semitic insults that it was an alcoholic, drug-addicted “shell” of himself who lashed out at patrons in a hip Paris bar.
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Designer Galliano blames drugs, booze for anti-Jewish rant
Fashion designer John Galliano claimed Wednesday as he stood trial for anti-Semitic insults that it was an alcoholic, drug-addicted “shell” of himself who lashed out at patrons in a hip Paris bar.
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Lord Stanley’s anarchist scare in Vancouver
Beware of riotous anarchists, protesters, and “left-wing pinkos”! We will corrupt your otherwise law-abiding, middle-class, Olympic-dreaming teenage sons, turning them into a seething mass of chaos.
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Journalism Next | Teen alcohol and drug abuse: under age and unaware
We have all listened to the speech that alcohol and drugs are a huge problem for teenagers. We have all heard the stunning statistics of the cause and effects of drug and alcohol abuse in teens. If we all continuously hear this information, then why do some of us still abuse drugs and alcohol?
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B.C. residents healthiest in Canada
British Columbians exercise the most, smoke the least and are good at making sure they eat their fruits and vegetables, compared with the rest of the country, according to a new Statistics Canada report released Tuesday.
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2 named to UI Health Care posts
Two new administrators have been named to help run operations for University of Iowa Health Care, officials announced Wednesday.
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CVC softball teams among best in Iowa
The Cedar Valley Conference continues to be among the best softball leagues in the state in terms of its top-to-bottom competitiveness. Durant, Regina and Wilton are ranked fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively, in Class 2A, and Mid-Prairie had been ranked previously. In addition, West Branch and West Liberty have proven they can contend with just about anyone.
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4 Russian sailors die after drinking Borneo brew
JAKARTA – POLICE say four crew members of a Russian ship anchored off Borneo island are dead and three more are seriously ill after drinking homemade Indonesian alcohol. Central Kalimantan police spokesman Edi Ciptianto said on Friday that authorities are searching for a local man they believe sold liquor mixed with a homemade brew.
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Thefts, underage drinking reported in Wayne County
Troopers from the Honesdale state police barracks are reporting four thefts and two cases involving minors drinking or trying to buy alcohol in Wayne County over the past month.
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Parents’ behaviour ‘can influence teen drinking’
Children who see their parents drunk are twice as likely to regularly get drunk themselves, a survey of young teenagers has suggested. Poor parental supervision also raises the likelihood of teenage drinking, said the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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‘Super sand’ could improve drinking water
WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) — Australian scientists say ordinary sand, used to filter and purify drinking water around the world, can be made into a “super sand” five times more efficient.
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Drinking And Driving Wrecks Keep Oklahoma Troopers Busy
Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers investigated several weekend wrecks that involved driving under the influence of alcohol.
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UI officials attribute binge drinking dip to 21-ordinance
University of Iowa officials said Iowa City’s 21-ordinance “contributed significantly” to a drop in students’ binge-drinking rate in the last two years.
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Binge drinking, drugs – a Mardi Gras tradition?
Mardi Gras is upon us (as it has been in New Orleans for over a month) and south Louisianans are bracing themselves for the onslaught of tourists, parade-goers and guests to our four-day party. Ma…
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House Dems learn drinking and driving don’t mix
For the third time in two months a House Democratic lawmaker has been charged with DUI.
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Rooftop Films Screening In Williamsburg Shut Down By Police Last Night Over Liquor License Dispute
The screening in Williamsburg was stopped by police, and several people were given summonses for drinking: “We believe the officers were in the wrong to stop the event, but had little recourse at the time.” [ more › ]
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Drinking Water Quality Technology Summit
Chicago, IL — The mission of Drinking Water Quality Technology Summit 2011 is to create a nation wide understanding on how to implement the latest detection and treatment technology to establish fail-safe monitoring of emerging contaminants within source water, treatment plants and distribution systems to deliver continuous water quality, MCL compliance and profitable operating margins.
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Sailors die after drinking Borneo brew
FOUR crew members of a Russian ship anchored off Borneo island are dead and three more are seriously ill after drinking homemade Indonesian alcohol, police say.
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Students Drinking Less Soda, But It’s Still Too Much
A new study shows that teenagers are drinking less soda than a generation ago.
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Safe drinking water seminar
June 24 deadline for registration and payment HAWLEY Homeowners and business people often take it for granted that the water coming out of their tap is safe for drinking.
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Drinking And Driving Wrecks Keep Oklahoma Troopers Busy
Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers investigated several weekend wrecks that involved driving under the influence of alcohol.
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Drinker survives hand sanitiser binge
A MAN who drank six bottles of hand sanitiser while being treated in hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the antibacterial gels to be better secured.
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NEW: AG strikes down fines for public drunkenness
Attorney General Martha Coakley has ruled against Foxboro’s bylaw to establish a fine for public drunkenness, passed at the March 7 Special Town Meeting.
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