<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Last Man Standing drinking contest ends in death : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Last Man Standing drinking contest ends in death : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last Man Standing drinking contest ends in death]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48975/1/</link><description><![CDATA[David Reid entered into a drinking contest inspired by American Pie 5 with his friend James Lynch.  After an intensive bout of drinking, Reid was helped to bed where he later died of alcohol poisoning.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking age 'should be 21' ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/16743/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The legal drinking age in the UK should be raised to 21 in a bid to curb binge drinking among youngsters.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking At An Early Age Can Lead To Later Alcohol Dependence]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/63989/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An early age at onset of drinking is a strong predictor of subsequent alcohol dependence.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manchester police chief Michael Todd had been drinking before plunging to his death]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53959/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A chief constable who plunged to his death in Snowdonia had been drinking before he was found dead at the bottom of a cliff.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breast cancer linked to drinking]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16387/1/</link><description><![CDATA[DRINKING alcohol directly causes two of Australia's most common cancers, breast and bowel, a landmark international study has found.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vodka drinking woman gets $14K award]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43612/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A Scottish woman who admitted to drinking 14 vodkas as she rang in the new millennium was awarded about $14,000 in damages after she fell from a bridge.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate on lower drinking age bubbling up]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31604/1/</link><description><![CDATA[vote on lowering teen drinking age to 18]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53615/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate on higher drinking age bubbling up]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31707/1/</link><description><![CDATA[As discussion takes place in the US about <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/31604/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18</a>, a government think-tank in the UK is calling for the age to be raised from 18 to 21.<br/><br/>It makes me think they're making it up as they go along]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plumbing blunder leaves Hiroshima U. students drinking toilet water since 1993]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31835/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A plumbing blunder resulted in water for toilet flushing being sent to drinking taps for more than a decade.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol Survey]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52490/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Compare your drinking habits with others. One in every four people have had marker drawn on their face when passed out.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink a beer and lose the fear - study]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60075/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Drinking alcohol dulls the brain's ability to detect threats, US researchers said today in a study that helps explain why drunk people get into bar fights and drive their cars.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud Music Leads to More Drinking in Less Time]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69437/1/</link><description><![CDATA[For three Saturday evenings scientists, disguised as usual customers, had been paying a visit to two bars located in a medium-sized city in the west of France... later they came up with two hypotheses.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does the Alcohol Breath Analyzer Serve A Socially Useful Purpose?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/19350/1/</link><description><![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?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time for tough decision-making on binge drinking ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14262/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Martin Gallagher has picked up Matt Robson's private member's bill to return the purchasing age of alcohol to 20 years..<br/><br/>I'M already 21. why couldn't they have tried this like 5 years ago..]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man dies in cake-eating contest]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51889/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An inquest is to be held on a man who died during a contest to see who could eat the most fairy cakes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ 'Danger: Avoid Death' contest winner]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44012/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Words to live by, from a warning label on a small tractor: &quot;Danger: Avoid Death.&quot; That warning was selected Wednesday as the winner of the 11th annual &quot;Wacky Warning Label Contest,&quot; sponsored by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch. The contest is part of an effort to show the effects of lawsuits on warning labels.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scooby Doo drinking game]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16238/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Who on Earth came up with this? I don't know, but it'll sure get you drunk.<br/><br/>Also see: <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.unwind.com/jokes-funnies/miscjokes/scoobydoo.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Was Scooby Doo drug-influenced?</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[College Drinking and Heart Problems]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64808/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I'm now a little worried thinking back on my college days...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtual Drinking Buddy]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28749/1/</link><description><![CDATA[What a pile of laughs this guy is.  It's enough to make you stop drinking.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korea county cans award for drinking workers]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19806/1/</link><description><![CDATA[On second thought, maybe it was not a good idea to give an award for drinking to local government officials.]]></description></item></channel></rss>