But when you look at advertising and you look at the media and you look at the Super Bowl, it's just our normative culture (to promote drinking)," she added. Toward that end, the COH provides various in-class and after-school programs aimed at helping elementary- and middle school-aged kids make good choices -- particularly when it comes to choosing friends. According to Terwillegar, the COH conducted a comprehensive youth survey at every high school and middle school in Midland County...

In the late 1800s, for example, increased demand for a finer type of tobacco known as bright leaf prompted officials, newspapers and warehousemen to promote production of it. While there is no great mystery as to the source of the dark side of the state s tobacco legacy, it might be eye opening to the average person kicking a can down the road in South Carolina that the fortunes of tobacco appear to be waning here in the Palmetto State. The importance of that last sentence notwithstanding,...

Yesterday, The Statesman published an investigation into the lives of Kayayei women on the streets of Accra - head porters in the city's markets, who have often migrated to the capital in search of a better life, but have met increased poverty and hardship. Yesterday, The Statesman published an investigation into the lives of Kayayei women on the streets of Accra - head porters in the city's markets, who have often migrated to the capital in search of a better life, but have met increased...

Make way for the waterdog. But with all due respect to the enterprising fourth-graders from Plymouth, who came up with the idea, we're throwing our weight behind the Neuse River Waterdog -- a brown salamander with black spots that only makes its home in the basins of the Neuse and Tar rivers. Make way for the waterdog. But with all due respect to the enterprising fourth-graders from Plymouth, who came up with the idea, we're throwing our weight behind the Neuse River Waterdog -- a brown...

Wine in the Woods marking its 15th year this weekend in Columbia Town Center By Sandy Alexander sun reporter Originally published May 18, 2007 The woods are the same, but the amount of wine has grown considerably as Wine in the Woods celebrates its 15th year in Columbia Town Center this weekend. Wine in the Woods marking its 15th year this weekend in Columbia Town Center By Sandy Alexander sun reporter Originally published May 18, 2007 The woods are the same, but the amount of wine has...