<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>One-third of Americans abuse alcohol : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/"/><tagline>One-third of Americans abuse alcohol : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-12-02T00:22:33+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[One-third of Americans abuse alcohol]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26128/1/" /><id>26128</id><summary><![CDATA[One-third of Americans abuse alcohol]]></summary><issued>2007-07-04T00:37:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-04T00:37:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Nearly one in three Americans abuse or become dependent on alcohol over the course of their lives, and most never seek treatment, according to a study published on Monday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Does the Alcohol Breath Analyzer Serve A Socially Useful Purpose?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/19350/1/" /><id>19350</id><summary><![CDATA[Does the Alcohol Breath Analyzer Serve A Socially Useful Purpose?]]></summary><issued>2007-05-07T10:28:48+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-07T10:28:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Drinking alcohol is a social custom that has been around since the early days of man. However the difference with today&#8217;s alcoholic drinking by comparison to that of say just 200 years ago relates to the scale of damage someone under the influence of alcohol can inflict on their local community when driving behind the wheel of a car. Being drunk and picking a fight is one thing, being drunk and mowing down an innocent pedestrian quite another. So does the alcohol analyzer have a place in today&#8217;s drunken driving conscious world?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why Don't The French Get As Fat As Americans? Americans Eat Until The TV Show Is Over]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/51407/1/" /><id>51407</id><summary><![CDATA[Why Don't The French Get As Fat As Americans? Americans Eat Until The TV Show Is Over]]></summary><issued>2008-02-20T08:07:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-20T08:07:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other hand, tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're watching is over.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Alcohol, Caffeinated Energy Drinks Dangerous Mix, Study says]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40749/1/" /><id>40749</id><summary><![CDATA[Alcohol, Caffeinated Energy Drinks Dangerous Mix, Study says]]></summary><issued>2007-11-06T00:13:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-06T00:13:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[College students that mix alcohol with caffeinated energy drinks are at higher risk for alcohol-related injuries than students who drink regular cocktails, according new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Poisonous alcohol kills 27 in Pakistan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36408/1/" /><id>36408</id><summary><![CDATA[Poisonous alcohol kills 27 in Pakistan]]></summary><issued>2007-09-21T17:29:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-21T17:29:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So what's the proof? Are they just making rubbing alcohol!? <br/><br/>The victims were labourers who lost consciousness after buying the alcohol on Thursday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Who Uses and Abuses Drugs and Alcohol?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74961/1/" /><id>74961</id><summary><![CDATA[Who Uses and Abuses Drugs and Alcohol?]]></summary><issued>2008-09-05T04:39:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-05T04:39:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[U.S. Government survey shows patterns of illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The More Alcohol You Drink - The Smaller Your Brain Volume]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/79415/1/" /><id>79415</id><summary><![CDATA[The More Alcohol You Drink - The Smaller Your Brain Volume]]></summary><issued>2008-10-14T05:15:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-14T05:15:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The more alcohol an individual drinks, the smaller his or her total brain volume, according to a new study.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Americans are world's top drug users: study]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/67412/1/" /><id>67412</id><summary><![CDATA[Americans are world's top drug users: study]]></summary><issued>2008-07-02T00:23:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-02T00:23:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[winning the war on drugs...<br/><br/>&quot;Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Americans annoyed by all these &quot;International News&quot; all over the internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/41687/1/" /><id>41687</id><summary><![CDATA[Americans annoyed by all these &quot;International News&quot; all over the internet]]></summary><issued>2007-11-15T02:47:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-15T02:47:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The profusion of international news available on the Internet has made it increasingly difficult for the average American to ignore the rest of the world, a trend researchers say threatens Americans' long, proud history of disregarding anything not about them.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Aborigines lose the right to land over child abuse]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/54736/1/" /><id>54736</id><summary><![CDATA[Aborigines lose the right to land over child abuse]]></summary><issued>2008-03-18T11:55:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-18T11:55:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australia&#8217;s Aborigines were stripped of the right of self-rule yesterday after the Government declared the widespread sexual abuse of Aboriginal children to be a national emergency.<br/><br/>This is several months old but I thought topical due to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/crime/l/54657/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> post]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Should we introduce kids to alcohol early?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40552/1/" /><id>40552</id><summary><![CDATA[Should we introduce kids to alcohol early?]]></summary><issued>2007-11-03T22:09:20+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-03T22:09:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I was allowed taste my parents wine and once I was about 12 I was allowed have half a glass Sat nights with dinner. I was also allowed have a drink at holidays and family occasions. Now, at 22, I barely drink at all. I never had much of a teen rebillion with alcohol, not having the facination with it my friends did. I think my parents did the right thing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Finland to introduce warnings on alcohol ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36371/1/" /><id>36371</id><summary><![CDATA[Finland to introduce warnings on alcohol ]]></summary><issued>2007-09-21T13:41:20+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-21T13:41:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Finland will introduce health warnings on bottles of beer, wine and liquor, following reports that alcohol has become the country's biggest killer.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[God Against Drunk Drivers! (or any alcohol comsumption)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36343/1/" /><id>36343</id><summary><![CDATA[God Against Drunk Drivers! (or any alcohol comsumption)]]></summary><issued>2007-09-21T10:01:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-21T10:01:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Alcohol is eeevil]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Gay couple left free to abuse boys - because social workers feared being branded homophobic]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34757/1/" /><id>34757</id><summary><![CDATA[Gay couple left free to abuse boys - because social workers feared being branded homophobic]]></summary><issued>2007-09-06T13:24:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-06T13:24:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A homosexual foster couple were left free to sexually abuse vulnerable boys in their care because social workers feared being accused of discrimination if they investigated complaints.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Are Americans Really That Stupid?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49204/1/" /><id>49204</id><summary><![CDATA[Are Americans Really That Stupid?]]></summary><issued>2008-02-01T21:02:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-01T21:02:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australian tv show, in which they interviewed Americans... How many sides does a triangle actually have!?!?!<br/>I hope this hasn't been posted before.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[With Daily Alcohol Use, Male Fruit Flies Court Other Males]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46843/1/" /><id>46843</id><summary><![CDATA[With Daily Alcohol Use, Male Fruit Flies Court Other Males]]></summary><issued>2008-01-11T04:39:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-11T04:39:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A team of researchers at Penn Sate has used an animal model to reveal, for the first time, a physiological basis for the effect of alcohol on male sexual behavior, including increased sexual arousal and decreased sexual inhibition.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Text messages implicate baby sitter in abuse]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59385/1/" /><id>59385</id><summary><![CDATA[Text messages implicate baby sitter in abuse]]></summary><issued>2008-04-23T01:48:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-23T01:48:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The woman who was watching two toddlers said she only told a friend he could abuse them sexually so that she could set him up for arrest.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Israel Trying To Extradite A &quot;Rabbi&quot; For The Most Horrific Case Of Child Abuse]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59028/1/" /><id>59028</id><summary><![CDATA[Israel Trying To Extradite A &quot;Rabbi&quot; For The Most Horrific Case Of Child Abuse]]></summary><issued>2008-04-20T15:55:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-20T15:55:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Any story of child abuse is hard to hear, this has got to be one of the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/04/put-stones-on-a.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">worst</a> &quot;alleged&quot; cases you have ever heard. Canada is expected to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/04/israel-seeks-ex.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">deny</a> extradition, I have pity on their children.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cardinals Ban Alcohol in Busch Clubhouse]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19556/1/" /><id>19556</id><summary><![CDATA[Cardinals Ban Alcohol in Busch Clubhouse]]></summary><issued>2007-05-09T03:38:24+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-09T03:38:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In a stadium named after the president of one of America's largest beer brewers, the St. Louis Cardinals have banned alcohol from the clubhouse, five days after relief pitcher Josh Hancock was killed in a alcohol-related traffic crash. Manager Tony La Russa said the decision was largely symbolic because today's players don't hang around the clubhouse to drink as in days past.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Oregon teen faces abuse charges in stomping on puppy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61373/1/" /><id>61373</id><summary><![CDATA[Oregon teen faces abuse charges in stomping on puppy]]></summary><issued>2008-05-11T03:13:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-11T03:13:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 19-year-old Medford woman has been charged with aggravated animal abuse that includes stomping a 3-month-old puppy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists Say Early Americans Arrived Earlier]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/55053/1/" /><id>55053</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists Say Early Americans Arrived Earlier]]></summary><issued>2008-03-20T12:43:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-20T12:43:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A team led by two Texas A&amp;M University anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines.]]></content></entry></feed>