May 23, 2008 -
Ok, you don't have to be drinking really to play. You might feel like you've been drinking after you've played though. You probably wont have the headache or hangover afterwards either.
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Sep 25, 2009 -
CUTLER, Calif. – Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants have surfaced at public and private schools in all 50 states — in small towns and inner cities alike.
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Feb 03, 2008 -
From the Daily Mail.
Man, 35, drank himself to death after consuming too much water
Last updated at 14:25pm on 31st January 2008
An inquest has heard today how a 35-year-old man literally drank himself to death after consuming too much water.
Shaun McNamara was found on the floor of his bathroom last September after downing a massive quantity of water.
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Feb 28, 2007 -
Sake Sangrias
The Japanese beverage isn't just a winter drink. With these cool, fruity punches, it's the perfect summer refresher, too.
By Kara Newman NYmag.com
Chino's
173 Third Ave., between 16th and 17th Sts.; 212-598-1200
At this tiny offshoot of Chow Bar, mild Okagura sake, riesling, and brandy make for a sangria that's as crisp as a cool glass of lemonade.
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May 27, 2008 -
Taste for Quick Boost Tied to Taste for Risk
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: May 27, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/health/27well.html?th&emc=th
Health researchers have identified a surprising new predictor for risky behavior among teenagers and young adults: the energy drink.
Super-caffeinated energy drinks, with names like Red Bull, Monster, Full Throttle and Amp, have surged in popularity in the past decade. About a third of 12- to 24-year-olds say they regularly down energy drinks, which account for more than $3 billion in annual sales in the United States.
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Jul 06, 2009 -
I'm suddenly taken back to the Pepsi tampering scandal in 1993.
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to buy two types of energy drinks packaged in test-tube like vials, saying that utility knife blades were found in two vials in an apparent case of tampering.
The FDA said Sunday that the blades were found in one vial each of Hardcore Energize Bullet drink and New Whey liquid products.
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Jul 10, 2008 -
The Pulse of Summer: Blender Drinks Are Back
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/dining/25blender.html?th&emc=th
By PETE WELLS
Published: June 25, 2008
YOU may regard the electric blender as a helpful household appliance. For your bartender, it is a tool straight from the devil.
“You’d be hard pressed to find a barman who takes his work seriously who works in a joint with a blender,” said Duggan McDonnell, an owner of the bar Cantina in San Francisco.
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Aug 21, 2008 -
"A group of influential college presidents say that letting kids drink earlier might help them drink safer, an argument that many parents are finding hard to swallow."
"College presidents from about 100 of the best-known U.S. 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.
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Nov 22, 2009 -
Hello everyone looking for some help, I have been with a man for 4 yrs things got bad between us and i broke up with him we weere apart for a few months and got back toghter. I am no angel I have hurt him as much as he has hurt me.That was why i broke up didn't think it was right to hurt each other every day with words or how we treated each other. We talked and got back toghter,but the old hurts jumped right back in. We started fighting basically every day.He has told me that nothing i do is enough then calls me names and that was why i ended it before.He fights with me about going out to clubs and i think it is crap becuase he fights with me about going to get milk.
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Jan 24, 2009 -
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For discussion.
Flasks under fire
RETAIL | Cutie designs, labels stress booze -- proof positive the containers encourage minor girls to drink, groups say
January 23, 2009
BY CHERYL V. JACKSON cjackson@suntimes.com
Anti-juvenile drinking forces are calling on a Hoffman Estates-linked accessories company to stop selling flasks at its stores across the country.
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