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60 Minutes on CBS News: The Debate On Lowering The Drinking Age - 60 Minutes: Some Say Age Should Be Lowered To 18, But MADD And Others Strongly Disagree ... But the college presidents got what they wanted: a national debate about the drinking age. When the age was raised to 21 in the mid-1980s, the goal was to reduce...
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www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/19/60minutes/main481357...
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/19/60minutes/main4813571.shtml
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SOME THINGS only seem like a good idea at 3 a.m. Increasingly, the Amethyst Letter, which more than 100 college presidents and chancellors signed last year to advocate rethinking the drinking age, looks like one of them. ... And in areas ...
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Therefore, some sort of legal drinking age makes sense. This leads to a second enigma: when does society consider a person responsible for their actions? ... Furthermore, a lower age would redirect the attention of the Ann Arbor P.D. from harmless frat parties to legitimately serious offenses. MR...
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Most of the rest of the world has come out in a different place on the drinking age. The United States is one of only four countries -- the others are Indonesia, Mongolia and Palau -- with an age as high as 21. All others either have no minimum age or have a lower age, generally 18, with some at 16.
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www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/16/mccardell.lower.drinkin...
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Studies show that moderate drinking can be good for you. But we legally proscribe alcohol until the age of 21 (why not 30 or 45?). Christine and her classmates can drive cars, fly planes, marry, vote, pay taxes, take out loans and risk their lives as members of the U.S. armed forces.
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www.mindfully.org/Industry/ACSH-Lower-Drinking-Age.htm
www.mindfully.org/Industry/ACSH-Lower-Drinking-Age.htm
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Though people nationwide continue to debate what the ideal legal drinking age should be, with some again calling for a lower age, Galanter said the results suggest that keeping the status quo would be good.
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www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_89559.html
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Why the drinking age should be lowered: An opinion based upon researc ... Significant increase were also found for other variables: "cutting class after drinking" jumped from 9% to almost 12%; "missing class because of hangover" went from 26% to 28%; "getting lower grade because of drinking" rose from 5% to 7%;
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www.indiana.edu/~engs/articles/cqoped.html
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My research has led me to believe strongly that perhaps the simplest and most dramatic action we could take to create more responsible alcohol consumption among college students would be to lower the legal drinking age to eighteen or nineteen.
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www.indiana.edu/~engs/articles/fruit.html
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In 1973, Kahn voted in the state Legislature to lower the drinking age in Minnesota from 21 to 18. ... This session is the second straight in which Kahn has proposed a bill to lower the drinking age, citing her concerns over the prospects of young people binge-drinking.
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www.mndaily.com/2009/03/24/bill-lower-drinking-age-stal...
www.mndaily.com/2009/03/24/bill-lower-drinking-age-stalls
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