Unprepared, I offered an uninformed opinion to the Baltimore Sun 
reporter and then tried to get him to phone somebody with genuine 
expertise about the topic.  I was more successful later in the week 
when a NY Times reporter asked me to pontificate about American 
drinking.  I have yet to see his article.

David Fahey (hoping that his phone won't ring)

At 11:08 AM 10/11/2005, you wrote:
>Readers of Canada's "Globe and Mail" newspaper may notice on the back page of
>Section A (Tuesday, October 11) a little article entitled "Record drinking" in
>which David Fahey ("a board member of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society")
>is quoted in reference to the increase in drinking in Britain.  For those
>without access to this Canadian paper, the article is an abstract of a longer
>article in the Baltimore Sun.
>
>Dan Malleck