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Higher Alcohol Taxes, Less Drinking
New York Times January 21, 2009
Higher taxes on alcohol can do more than add cash to ailing government budgets. A new study reports "statistically overwhelming evidence" that raising taxes also reduces the level of drinking.
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Sleuths Target Online Booze
Raleigh News & Observer January 12, 2009
UNC-Chapel Hill cyber-detectives are heading out on a new quest to track down underage sin.
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Rethinking the Issue of Campus Drinking
Philadelphia Inquirer December 29, 2008
A potentially intoxicating national debate about college students' behavior started this fall. More than 130 university and college presidents have questioned the legal drinking age of 21, arguing that current alcohol-control policies aren't working.
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Tougher Driving Comes with DUI Conviction
Chicago Tribune December 29, 2008
Motorists busted for drunken driving in Illinois after Wednesday will have to blow into a device to prove their sobriety every time they get behind the wheel—or their vehicle won't start.
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Colleges Can’t Mix With Alcohol
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution December 22, 2008
William Durden, president of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, received an irate e-mail from a parent warning that the institution was gaining a reputation as the place where “fun dies.”
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