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...Underage drinking will always be a problem, no matter where the MLDA is set. However, if it were set at 18, alcohol would spill over to high schools even more than it already does, and 13-to-17-year-olds would be more likely to drink at levels now associated with the 17-to-20-year-old college demographic. Although correlation is not causation, a 1978 study suggested high schoolers drank more, abstained less, and got drunk more often in those states with a MLDA...
...Americans drive more and therefore suffer more consequences from drunk driving. For another, the rest of the world may actually have evolved higher physiological tolerances for alcohol, an effect that Americans cannot hope to duplicate overnight. Finally, research shows that European countries, at least, do actually have an alcohol problem: Europe, as a whole, consumes far more,per capita than the United States, and its rates of liver problems are alarming...
...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finally getting around to tackling a problem that has irked discerning car buyers for decades. Since the 1970s, any new car or truck sold in the U.S. has been required to carry a label that details both the price and the estimated mileage the vehicle will get in city and highway driving. Consumers and environmentalists, however, have criticized the practice, saying the mileage figures on the EPA sticker don't bear any resemblance to the mileage motorists actually achieve in real-world driving...
...problem was brought to a head in the past couple of years by drivers of new hybrid vehicles who complained to the EPA their vehicles were getting significantly lower mileage than their fuel-economy stickers indicated they would. Faced with a growing chorus of complaints, the EPA reacted by holding hearings last winter and collecting more than 3,000 comments from manufacturers, consumers and environmentalists. This week the EPA announced it was changing how it determines the miles-per-gallon estimates that appear on new vehicle window stickers...
...Paulson's problem is compounded by the fact that the clock is ticking. With a new Democrat-run Congress due to open for business in January, he may not even have months. One of the most powerful Democratic voices in the Senate will be that of Charles Schumer, co-sponsor of a temporarily postponed bill that would impose heavy tariffs on Chinese products if Beijing doesn't allow the renminbi to rise from what Schumer and others say is its current artificially low level against the dollar. Paulson may remind the Chinese, also, that the new Speaker of the House...