Trough gardening was born in England in the late 1800s, when the wealthy were madly collecting flora from all over the world, and adapting the stone basins from which horses drank to show off their collections of alpine plants.

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During the 1960s, engineers knocked off a day's work at Fairchild and drank brown liquor until they fell off bar stools.

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Adding a layer of absurdity, reports circulated that the Sox's off-day pitching staff drank beer and munched on fast-food chicken during games.

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The witnesses said the erratic driving lasted up to an hour as Cheung drank coffee and energy drinks before nodding off and losing control.

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Not long ago, in Jamaica, at a Forbes.com conference, I drank too much Red Stripe ale and on a dare lept off a 55-foot cliff.

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