Word: drinkingness
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How did cultural infantilization creep up on us? In The Disappearance of Childhood, a wonderful little book first published in 1982, Neil Postman, a New York University professor who died this month, identified a shift from a culture based on literature - on reading - to one based on the image. In...
In a Harvard survey issued last fall, 34.5 percent of males and 26.9 percent of females acknowledged drinking five drinks or more in one sitting—the standard definition of “binge drinking”—at least once over the course of two weeks...
There are three primarily concerns that arise from episodes of undergraduate binge drinking. The first and most apparent is that students drink more than their bodies can withstand, and they get violently ill, resulting in trips to UHS or area hospitals. Out of 24 admits to UHS this September, two...
Student sexual behavior is also influenced by alcohol abuse. According to the survey, 9.8 percent of students reported that they engaged in unprotected sex as a consequence of drinking. Binge drinking also increases the risk of sexual assault. Harvard administrators have often cited alcohol as a mitigating factor in the...
Cameos by characters from previous works, nonsense doodles, and even Hitchcock-like appearances by the artist himself, are de rigueur to Tezuka. He has an almost Shakespearian desire to mix high drama with low comedy, though Shakespeare rarely had characters doing both. At one point during volume one a powerful...