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...first glance, the aims of a movement to lower the drinking age might seem to be entirely disparate from the goals of a push to tighten drinking laws. But, recently, two campaigns with different aims have addressed a common problem: the poor state of drinking laws in the U.S. The Amethyst Initiative is a petition from university presidents that criticizes the current national drinking age of 21. Another group, All-Wisconsin Alcohol Risk Education (AWARE), is led by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and supports reforming Wisconsin’s notoriously lax drinking laws. While...
...While trips to the estate of a movie star may seem glamorous, Crocker Snow said the experience is far from the idyllic Hollywood stereotype...
...seem very easy going and relaxed, but you're also a very focused competitor. Do you find those two aspects of your personality conflicting? It works for me, I guess. I'm relaxed but I always want to improve myself when I'm surfing; in that way you can say I'm focused. But otherwise I'm pretty low-key, I do my own thing...
...have a go at North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on his home turf, but these days, a growing number of South Korean activists seem to be pulling it off - meteorological conditions permitting. "We have to wait for the winds to be just right," says Choi Sung Young, who was able to take advantage of rare southerly winds on the peninsula on Thursday to launch nearly a dozen gas-filled balloons, containing thousands of flyers pillorying Kim Jong Il's regime, and watch them float toward the border. (See pictures of The Rise of Kim Jong...
...legislative debate. The to-and-fro over the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the U.S. has turned parliamentary politics into prime-time entertainment. In restaurants and caf?s across Baghdad, TV screens normally featuring music videos and Arabic soap operas are instead tuned to Iraqi news channels that seem at times to be devoted exclusively to the SOFA story. It's democracy as reality...