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By Sarah Alban, Reporter
Sept. 28, 2007

Virginia licenses not valid at

Indiana University area liquor store

A liquor store in Bloomington, Ind., recently cut off sales to anyone under 27 who wish to purchase alcohol with a license from Virginia.

Big Red Liquors President Wade Shanower said an increase of extremely hard-to-spot false identification cards inspired the store's new policy. The fake IDs are so well made that State of Indiana Excise Police officials did not punish Big Red employees for not spotting the forgeries in the past.

But this year, Big Red has already been fined as much as $500 because of the Virginia IDs.

"We're kind of between a rock and a hard place," Shanower said. "We're not in the business of turning down customers. We've got a responsibility to the community."

Dan Garfinkel, a 21-year-old student with a Virginia license, once had to show his ID, car license plate and insurance card to get inside the liquor store.

— The Indiana Daily Student

(Indiana University)

Study finds drug-related injuries,

deaths increase

In 2005, prescription drugs caused 89,842 serious injuries, 2.6 times the number reported in 1998, and fatalities from prescription drugs increased by 2.7 percent, according to a new study.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices supervised the study, which also found that the number of serious adverse effects reported rose four times as much as outpatient prescriptions rose.

The Food and Drug Administration labels any event as a "serious adverse effect" if it is life-threatening or fatal, requires intervention to prevent harm or causes birth defects, death, disabilities or hospitalization.

In a news release, Gerald Dal Pan, director of the FDA's Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, said possible reasons for the increase in adverse effects from drugs include an increased number of people using prescription drugs and greater drug-information availability on the Internet.

— The Daily Collegian

(Penn State University)

Northeastern University students not in

agreement with Web vs. sex survey

In a new survey, 47 percent of 1,011 adults surveyed said they were watching television less, and 22 percent said they were socializing less in order to spend more time online.

The survey, released Sept. 19 by the advertising agency JWT, includes reports of Americans giving up time spent having sex for time spent on the Internet.

Northeastern University marketing major Savannah Rose said she doesn't approve of substituting online socializing for face-to-face interaction.

"I just don't think people should make the Internet such a big part of their lives," Rose said. "You need to spend time interacting with real people."

JWT cited the biggest reason for the increase in online time devotion to this statement, which 48 percent of individuals surveyed agreed with: "If I cannot access the Internet when I want to, I feel like something important is missing."

— The Northeastern News

(Northeastern University)

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