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For us, the most coveted venue was the Firehouse on Colombo Street in Sydenham. It was a converted fire station with a downstairs bar called Matches. (It burned to the ground in the early 1990s.)
Location 125
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I didn’t have the off switch — the signal that says ‘Enough is enough.’ I’d be having a great time and the next thing I knew it’d be morning and I’d be trying to piece the night together while fighting down the feeling of shame.
Location 253
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If you’re a drinker you will recognise the weight of that shame, knowing you need to apologise to someone even if you don’t know who that person is.
Location 255
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(Up to 35 per cent of ED presentations are estimated to be alcohol-related, rising to as much as 70 per cent on the weekends.)
Location 409
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The first thing the New Zealand Parliament did – the very first thing when the House sat for the first time in 1854 – was pass a law allowing MPs to drink alcohol at Parliament.
Location 584
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Resveratrol has been found to offset the negative impacts of high-calorie diets in mice, according to research by the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Ageing, published in Nature in 2006.1 But the mice were given 24 milligrams of resveratrol per kilogram of body weight — and according to a New York Times analysis of the study, a 70 kilogram person would need to consume between 750 and 1500 bottles of red wine every day to get a similar dose.
Location 1896