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...view the issue of teenage drinking as an exercise in damage control. They find sterner attitudes and tactics -- imposing curfews and chaperones, smelling the breath, searching the room -- impractical and unenlightened. Many recall their own experimentation with booze and resolve to teach their children how to drink responsibly. Since fake identification cards, drive-through liquor stores and unsupervised parties are facts of adolescent life, parents are determined to walk a precarious line between tolerance and restraint, to encourage moderation and keep the lines of communication open...
...Wolfe's book came out the city had at least two of those. Yet Wolfe's message remains clear--the public frenzy generated about the trial is the empty hysteria of an uncomprehending city. In a final touch of verisimilitude, Wolfe concludes his work with an old journalist-style fake New York Times article...
...Spiegel claims that it conducted tests on the paper, ink and official markings to verify the age of the document. But Waldheim's supporters quickly dismissed it as a fake. Presidential Spokesman Gerold Christian said Waldheim "had neither ordered deportations nor rendered them possible in any way." Others said Plenca's disclosure seemed timed to cast doubt on a forthcoming report by a panel of international historians charged with examining Waldheim's war record. Initiated by the Austrian Foreign Ministry last summer, the group plans to deliver its final report next week...
...didn't want that." Instead, she sought help at a local clinic, where she received a novel prescription: sit in front of a bank of bright lights for several hours a day. Within a week she was back to her normal sunny self. Says Krabacher, who now basks in fake sunlight each day at the desk in her office: "I'm finally having a good winter up here...
...that a friend of Korean extraction had helped him apply for his passport four years ago and had kept it for a while, long enough to forge a copy. While police linked the friend to North Korean sympathizers living in Japan, his fingerprints do not match those of the fake Shinichi. As the mystery deepens, Seoul is already threatening to withdraw an offer to allow Pyongyang to stage some Olympic events...