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...have long extolled the health benefits of tonics and poultices made from rare animal parts, including everything from bear bile to deer antlers. Among enthusiasts for this esoteric branch of traditional medicine, few animals are more treasured for their nutritive qualities than the tiger. Tiger bone wine - a rice alcohol brewed in a vat with the carcass of one of the cats - is prized as a tonic for fatigue and sexual potency, for example. In an effort to clamp down on the lucrative poaching industry that sprung up around the big cats, sales of tiger parts were banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger Abuse in China Sparks Calls for Animal Rights | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...nostalgic trip to a ski resort, where the group hopes to relive the bacchanalian days of their youth. “We were young, we had momentum,” laments Cusack’s character. Surprised to find the entire town rundown and decrepit, they console themselves with alcohol, drugs, and a mysterious hot tub. In the morning, they wake up in 1986, which the film recreates in painstaking detail. There are a number of funny references to Poison, “Miami Vice,” Jheri curls, Ronald Reagan, and when MTV actually lived...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Tub Time Machine | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...pilot program to fund medium-sized parties in the Houses, including those where alcohol is served, earned the approval of the Undergraduate Council yesterday night...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa and Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: UC To Test Funding Parties | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...portion of the funds may be used to purchase alcohol. In this case, the SIP money will also be used to pay for supervision by two Beverage Authorization Team members and a Harvard University Police Department detail, which Gehrke said “gives everybody the assurance that these events are going to be safe...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa and Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: UC To Test Funding Parties | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...party grants program—which disbursed $1,750 per week to private student parties for four years before it was disbanded by then-Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam in 2007—was condemned for facilitating underage alcohol consumption...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa and Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: UC To Test Funding Parties | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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