• Xiaofen, a young legal secretary in the boom town of Zigong, hears bitter and desperate clients recount their tales of personal and commercial woe, but she has problems of her own: her live-in boyfriend is a drunk and a gambler whose chronic debt and jealous anger make her life hell.

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  • In this sense it is a lot like drunk driving, which also used to be subject to "no harm, no foul" sentencing.

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  • At the end of the day collision-related texting is no more comic than a drunk behind the wheel on a dark road late at night, when someone you love is about to cross his path.

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  • In a popular joke, a drunk shouts that he is a baggage-handler at Havana's Hotel Nacional.

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  • The business community is drunk on a stock market boom that is far up the risk curve.

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  • Washington (CNN) -- A common benchmark in the United States for determining when a driver is legally drunk is not doing enough to prevent alcohol-related crashes that kill about 10, 000 people each year and should be made more restrictive, transportation safety investigators say.

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  • And yet, according to the American Bar Association, if a guest gets food poisoning, is injured at your home or drives drunk after a party, the host could get sued.

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  • Much of Chianti can be drunk young and is a perfect foil to wash down a simple supper.

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  • For that reason, I doubt that anyone who is a true Apple fanatic, who has drunk the rainbow Kool-Aid and who thrills at the very words "Think Different, " will believe a word I have to say.

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  • All the same, Mr Primakov, is at least a presentable face for Russia: neither drunk, nor ill, nor a political amateur, and with a modicum of administrative ability.

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  • Many of Jim's most memorable moments on the Street have happened when he is drunk, and Lawson has admitted having had a drink problem himself in the past.

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  • Some politicians -- and a few economists -- would say that America is drunk on credit and just needs to go cold turkey.

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  • He is accused of chasing and firing on a minibus full of people while drunk in 2011.

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  • Botha is accused of chasing and firing on a minibus full of people while drunk in 2011.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Botha is accused of opening fire on a minibus full of people while allegedly drunk in 2011.

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  • The 22-year South African Police veteran is accused of chasing and firing on a minibus full of people while drunk.

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  • This follows the same logic as beta blocker use: Alcohol blocks stress pathways in the brain (which is why it relaxes people), so people who were drunk were in a condition in which the terrible event couldn't register fully in the brain in a way that would lead to PTSD.

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  • They are there to have fun, they are often drunk, and from a strictly mercenary point of view, this is a great room.

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  • Although Nissan has already considered an add-on option that would prevent inebriated individuals from motoring around on a whim, it looks like Toyota is following suit with its own anti-drunk driving approach.

    ENGADGET: Toyota getting into the anti-drunk driving game

  • Another MIT invention was a pair of cups--each is designed to glow when the other is being drunk from.

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  • The idea for a tighter standard is part of a safety board initiative outlined in a staff report and approved by the panel to eventually eliminate drunk driving, which accounts for about a third of all road deaths in the United States.

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  • Sharpton is expected Friday to lay flowers at a memorial for a Brooklyn family, which lost several loved ones when an allegedly drunk off-duty police officer ran them down.

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