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...efforts to crack down on excessive alcohol consumption among young scholars have been largely futile. Enforcing strict rules on university turf seemed to push the parties off campus. Raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 in the 1980s merely triggered a boom in the business of creating fake ID cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Education: Crocked on Campus | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...stores and bars came together as a group to do their own monitoring, to do training on how to spot a fake ID, and to work towards a common piece of identification," Vargos said...

Author: By Nicholas A. Stoller, | Title: Teen Drug Abuse on Rise in Cambridge | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

Organizers did take action to prevent counterfeiting, Chiu said. "We tried to print the tickets so they would be impossible to [fake]," she said...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: On Formal Black Market, Even Fakes Are Expensive | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...slangy, teen-dream prose of a suburban hell raiser with rock-solid numbers. He shows us kids who attended high school for only three days and schools that have never sent a single student to college. He explains how to hotwire a Suzuki 750 motorbike and how to sell fake acid on the streets. Yet all these fancy maneuvers are underscored by some sobering statistics. The average Japanese watches nearly an hour more of television a day than an American. Approximately 14,000 adult videos are made every year in Japan (in the U.S. the figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Teriyaki | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...Next room: a 16-year-old girl named Jean, up all night on speed, paces back and forth, desperate for a cigarette. A tall, green-eyed blond, Jean ran away from Minneapolis, Minnesota, six months ago with $50 in her pocket and a fake I.D. She left a suicide note on her bed. "Let's just say my family really sucked," she says. "I can't say who I hate more, my mom or my dad. God, I need a cigarette!" One of the tweakers tumbles into the room to announce she has just found a small fragment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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