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12.30.2008 9:00 pm

Science tackles the hangover, without much luck

’Tis the season to be sorry. At least for some of us.

Tonight, of course, is New Year’s Eve. It’s a time for festive celebration, auld lang syne and all that.

Tomorrow, for the incautious and intemperate, is the day of reckoning —…

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08.24.2008 9:01 pm

Monday editorial: Drinking and the age of reason

snap7_opt.jpg“Every Halloween, the trees are full of underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode.”

So lamented Dean Vernon Wormer of Faber College in the 1978 movie “Animal House.” But the same complaints — and worse — could be made by any number…

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07.15.2008 3:34 pm

In defense of Budweiser

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

bud_opt2.jpgFallout from the Anheuser-Busch deal with InBev:

A colleague (who shall remain unnamed) suggested in an editorial board meeting Monday that “Budweiser is (crummy) beer.”

This particular colleague does not drink beer. His defense was that “everyone I know who knows anything…

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