Coffee Break

A group of more than 100 U.S. college and university
presidents say the drinking age of 21 years isn’t working
and has led to a culture of binge drinking.

Twenty-four years after the National Minimum Drinking Age
Act that tied federal highway funds to the drinking age
of 21 was enacted, the group found the legal drinking age
“is not working” and a “culture of dangerous, clandestine
‘binge-drinking’ — often conducted off-campus — has
developed,” the Amethyst Initiative said in a news release.

The Amethyst Initiative, based in Middlebury, Vt., is made
up of chancellors and presidents of from post-secondary
institutions who signed a statement calling for the issue
to be revisited.

“Adults under 21 are deemed capable of voting, signing
contracts, serving on juries and enlisting in the military,
but are told they are not mature enough to have a beer,”
the statement said. “By choosing to use fake IDs, students
make ethical compromises that erode respect for the law.”

Amethyst Initiative signatories also call on elected
officials to weigh the consequences of tying federal
highway dollars to alcohol policies and invited officials
to consider “new ideas on how best to prepare young adults
to make responsible decisions about alcohol use.”

What are your thoughts on the current drinking age of 21?

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          Olympian: Bikinis better for volleyball
A three-time Olympian from California says the two-piece
bikinis sported by many beach volleyball players are more
than fashion, they’re function.  Holly McPeak, 39, who brought
home the bronze from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens,
Greece, said players are given the option of wearing a more
modest one-piece uniform but that choice comes with some
uncomfortable side-effects, ABC News reported.  “When you
dive, the sand goes down the top and collects in the bottom,”
she said.  Fabrizio Rossini, press officer for the Federation
Internationale de Volleyball, which officially governs Olympic
volleyball, said most female beach volleyball players prefer
the bikinis.  “It’s a very tough sport,” Rossini said in an
e-mail. “Only the best athletes in the world can perform at
this level, playing more than one hour, running and jumping
on a complicated surface like the sand, under strong wind,
heavy rain or the hottest conditions. If they didn’t like
their uniforms, the FIVB would have received tons of
complaints for them, which is not the case.”
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              Poll: Dems edge out GOP as drinkers
A U.S. survey of Washington bartenders concluded that
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to still be
standing at closing time.  Of the 100 D.C. servers polled
by a trio of spirits companies, 53 percent said Democrats
were more likely to the last ones left compared to 45 percent
who gave the nod to Republican revelers.  The parties were
pretty much evenly split when it came who was more likely
to roll in first to kick off happy hour.  Democrats have
better pickup lines than their conservative colleagues, and
Republicans are far more likely to take drinks straight up
than Democrats, who are more likely to order something pink
and frothy, the poll indicated.  The survey wasn’t strictly
scientific but the Minneapolis Star-Tribune found it worthy
enough to publish Monday with next month’s Republican
National Convention on the horizon.  The bad news for Twin
Cities barkeeps is the District’s conclusions on tipping:
60 percent see Democrats as the best tippers compared to
38 percent who gave the nod to the GOP.
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              Teddy cam catches thieving caregiver
A British woman pleaded guilty to theft after a camera
planted in a teddy bear caught her stealing money from a
terminally ill woman she was hired to care for.  Yvonne Allen,
28, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and was sentenced
to six months imprisonment at the Community Justice Center
after the family of Thelma Sampson, 75 — who has been
diagnosed with a terminal case of leukemia — videotaped
Allen stealing $120 from the Walton, England, great-
grandmother in July, the Liverpool Echo reported Monday.
Sampson’s son, Robert, said his sister, Emma, had suggested
the teddy bear camera after the family became suspicious that
the caregiver had been stealing money.  “The first day when
the carer came in we realized £40 ($80) had gone missing,”
Robert Sampson said. “I went out to Tasker’s and bought a
surveillance camera and put it into the eye of a teddy bear
and put it in my mum’s bedroom.”  “The next day the carer
came back and after she left we saw that a further £60
($120) had gone missing,” he said. “When we checked the
video we saw her go into the bedroom and take the money.”
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