Boredom in the West Fuels Binge Drinking
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A survey shows that people in a handful of northern tier states drink to excess at very early ages.
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THIS is a tale of obsession that began nearly two years ago in a smoked-filled bar in the mountains of Andalusia.
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YOUNG women who binge drink are likely to ruin their looks as well as their health. A UK campaign launched this week warns of the dangers of too much alcohol.
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By Minty Clinch  Big sky, big snow, big wagons. That's how the Rockies were when the West was won and that's how they are today. No doubt 19th- century pioneers driving horse-drawn carts cursed the champagne powder fields that barred their progress.
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Almost half of adults eat to beat the blues or boredom, research suggests.
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Parents who supply alcohol for their teenagers' parties may be encouraging their children to binge drink when no adult is watching, a new study suggests.
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Scientists have devised a treatment which could stop alcoholics drinking too much.
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The story begins with one of my buddies who survived basic going on to kill interesting people in interesting places. Most of my group managed to go from Texas to Korea to work on flight lines and for more training. Somewhere along the way, someone managed to wander far off the beaten path. He ended up in Morocco and found himself a beautiful woman to marry for a few years and spent most of his time being chased by the MPs. Take one part Indiana Jones, add a heaping spoonful of boring and a pinch of action, and you have military life abroad. The smell of shisha begins there, and it doesn't smell like the Air Force...
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As pastimes go it is in the same league  as watching paint dry, with perhaps a frisson of extra  excitement.
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If the obituary pages of Western newspapers pride themselves on sobriety, the opposite holds true in Nigeria.
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My rÃÂ¿sumÃÂ¿ is pretty short when it comes to endurance events. There was that 23- hour nonstop drive from New Hampshire to South Carolina back in 1987, and I vaguely remember a St. Patrick's Day drinking contest at the University of Maryland that lasted quite a while (thanks, Norman).
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TOLEDO -- The cacophony starts before the first light of dawn, like an agitated rooster. It doesn't quit until after the last bar in this hardworking town has stopped serving.
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Watered-down whiskey doesn't go down smoothly.
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The groove swings from the get-go. A clinking pi ano evokes ice cubes in a highball glass. Blasts of muted brass seem to cut like a foghorn through the thick nicotine-and-nostalgia haze of a nightclub.
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NEW YORK  - Young adults who binge drink frequently are more likely to show disadvantageous decision-making patterns than their peers who don't drink as heavily, a new study shows.
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Perfect for a culture obsessed with its innards, a new documentary dispenses with all the plot nonsense of CSI and House. One high-def shot after another of visceral video -- cold beer flowing down a man's gullet, or a teen's muscle-and-bone growth spurt -- show beauty is more than skin deep.
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"Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights Â Hollywood to the Heartland" is only sporadically wild, but it does indeed go through some Western states. It also ends up feeling about as long and draggy as the title itself.