The Alcohol Industry's Plan to Give America a Giant Drinking Problem

ndustry giants are threatening to swallow up America's carefully regulated alcohol industry, and remake America in the image of booze-soaked Britain. November 24, 2012 | England has a drinking problem. Since 1990, teenage alcohol consumption has doubled. Since World War II, alcohol intake for the population as a whole has doubled, with a third of that increase occurring since just 1995. The United Kingdom has very high rates of binge and heavy drinking, with the average Brit consuming the equivalent of nearly ten liters of pure ethanol per year. read more

Deaf Black Filmmaker Breaks New Ground In Film

Zhane Rain — a hard-of-hearing, 18-year-old black girl growing up in New York City — has come to a crossroads in her life. After growing up in a family of mostly deaf people who prefer to keep to themselves, she wants to break ranks. Her mother wants her to go to a university for the deaf, and continue to live her life primarily among deaf people. But she wants to branch out into the world of the hearing as a student at a mainstream college. The college she selects will forever shape her life as a black woman.
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