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Is it Time to Lower the Drinking Age

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Associated Content - By Carl Benjamin, Justin Pope, Barbara Rodriguez, Kavita Kumar - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - College Presidents want to lower the drinking age to reduce binge drinking.

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A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

AlterNet - By Andy Lechter - Aug. 19 (Advocacy) - Shroom opens with a serviceable overview of the biology and chemistry of psychoactive mushrooms

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College Presidents Want Lower Drinking Age

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Associated Press - By Justin Pope - Aug. 19 (News Report) - College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth, and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age to 18 from 21, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

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Obama Infanticide Attack Being Readied By 527s, Pat Buchanan Says

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Aug. 18 (News Report) - the GOP seems hell bent on furthering the line of attack. In the minutes preceding Saturday's values forum with the presidential candidates, Pat Buchanan discussed Obama's alleged vulnerabilities on the issue of abortion before letting it slip that conservative groups were set to hit the Illinois Democrat on charges of infanticide.

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The Hardest Places in the World to Find a Bathroom

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Foreign Policy - Aug. 14 (Special Report) - Not only does Eritrea rank worst in Africa, but it ranks worst in the world in terms of the percentage of people without access to improved sanitation facilities--i.e. those that separate excreta from human contact, and that aren't shared between households. If you travel in the countryside, expect to go in the open, the way 95 percent of the rural population does...

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For elderly, sex doesn't have to get old: survey

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Reuters - By By Andrew Stern - Aug. 13 (News Report) - Getting old does not mean saying so long to sex, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. More than three-quarters of American men aged 75 to 85 and half of women that age are still interested in sex, a survey of the elderly by University of Chicago researchers found.

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Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Nation - By John Nichols - Aug. 12 (News Analysis) - Pressured by progressive activists who objected to the tepid language in a draft document prepared by the Barack Obama campaign, the Democratic platform-writing committee reworked the party's official agenda Saturday to include a clear commitment "that every American man, woman and child be guaranteed to have affordable, comprehensive health care."

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Clumsy children more likely to become obese adults

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Reuters - By Ben Hirschler - Aug. 12 (News Report) - "It's not a question of people who are already overweight becoming clumsy because the majority of these children weren't any heavier than their peers," researcher Scott Montgomery said in a telephone interview.

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US 'war on drugs' in Iraq

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Aljazeera - By Jane Dutton - Aug. 12 (Special Report) - Iraq has become a favoured route for heroin and hashish, passing from Afghanistan and Iran to illegal markets in Europe and Africa. Washington may claim it is winning the so-called "war on terror" in Iraq, but US forces there are facing a growing battle against drugs.

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The Importance of Exercising Your Brain

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Associated Content - By Carl Benjamin - Aug. 11 (Opinion) - Just as diet and exercise are important for your body, so it is for your brain as well.

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