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| TOP STORIES | | | [25 min ago ] (Brad Puffer, NECN) - A proposed hike in tolls on the Mass Pike and the tunnels has raised a debate in Massachusetts.
House Speaker Sal DiMasi has said that an increase in the gas tax is a fairer way to share the costs of the Big Dig. The current gas... | | | read more | | | [54 min ago ] (NECN) - Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) beat out Representative John Dingell for the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, a group in which Dingell has been the top Democrat for 28 years.
Waxman took the chairmanship... | | | read more | | | [2 hours ago ] (NECN) - It seems more likely that Hillary Clinton will be the next Secretary of State.
People close to her said the New York Senator is considering whether to take the post.
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NEW ENGLAND:
100 college presidents support lowering drinking age
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| August 19, 2008 100 college presidents support lowering drinking age
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(Jennifer Eagan, NECN: Worcester, MA) - A group of college presidents is supporting a move to lower the drinking age to 18. Leaders from about 100 schools including Clark University say something has to be done about binge drinking.
It has been 24 years since congress passed legislation basically requiring states to raise the legal drinking age to 21 .. those that failed to comply were threatened with the loss of federal highway dollars.
In 1988 Wyoming became the last state to raise the minimum to age to 21. But two decades later.. there is a push to bring it back to 18.. and leading the charge.. a surprising spearhead... as no less than 100 presidents of universities and colleges say the reduction may ease the problem of binge drinking on campus.
They are calling it the amethyst initiative.
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