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...them longer to clear alcohol from their system; alcohol may also alter brain chemistry differently in older folks. (That's why Nixon warns people against going out drinking with their parents. "You'll embarrass both of you," she says.) But the discrepancies in impairment between age groups in the current study were not attributable to differences in metabolism. Despite self-perceived differences in intoxication, actual increases in blood-alcohol content happened at similar rates in both age groups - which may be due in part to the fact that these older adults were healthier and more robust than average, says Nixon...
...cash-strapped Rosneft, Russia's oil major, and another $10 billion to Transneft, Russia's biggest pipeline company. The loans will be paid off not in cash, but in crude - 300,000 barrels a day from the huge east Siberian oil field. That's about 4% of China's current total demand for crude, secured on very favorable terms. Over the 20-year life of the deal, Beijing will effectively be paying about $20 per barrel. Crude prices, which last summer peaked at more than $140 per barrel, now sit just above...
Brazil is no stranger to economic crises. In the 1970s and '80s, Latin America's economic giant turned financial mismanagement into an art form. The current global turmoil has not left Brazil unscathed: stock prices, exports and growth are all down. But something interesting is at work this time around, and the best place to see it is in one of Brazil's favelas, the vast urban slums that are desperate even in the best of times. Walk through São Paulo's sprawling Brasilândia, though, and you don't sense the relentless doom and gloom gripping...
...Lula" is President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (no relation to Efigênia), and most Brazilians believe he's the reason their country is surviving the current downturn better than other places. In past crises, Brazil was usually the nation in need of the largest life preserver. If it wasn't drowning under fiscal recklessness, it was being held under by draconian austerity plans. Brazil, the old joke goes, is the country of the future - and always will be. Now, in the middle of the worst global downturn for decades, Brazil could finally be the country...
...story "Obama's Rx for the budget," you quote the President as saying, "Medicare and Medicaid on their current trajectory cannot be sustained" [March 2]. In my opinion, the only fair way to create a new medical program is to have Congress give up its current coverage and create a program that its members too will participate in. Marilyn Steinhart, BALLWIN...