August 9, 2010, 12:05 AM
Two Republican senators have lambasted a half-million-dollar grant to San Diego State University researchers who are studying whether placing certain health messages on menus might persuade drinkers to imbibe less. U.S. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., last week put out...
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July 21, 2010, 12:05 AM
If it’s the bang in your wine you’re after, you’re in luck. That’s because the sugar content – and therefore the alcohol content – in California wine grapes has increased nearly 10 percent since the late-1980s. Exactly why this is the case has led to a...
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July 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
A couple of years ago, officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison went after the local Walgreens drugstore for a display that advertised most of the paraphernalia necessary to play the ubiquitous college drinking game of beer pong. The offending display included plastic cups and ping...
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January 2, 2010, 12:00 AM
Tens of thousands of California businesses have licenses to sell alcohol. Search our database to find out who owns what and where.
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