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Milwaukee has been ranked by Forbes as America s Drunkest City on a list of 35 major metropolitan areas ranked for their drinking habits.More than 70 percent of adult Milwaukeeans reported that they had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 days. That compares with 45 percent in Nashville, Tennessee, which ranked last among the 35 cities on the list.Forbes said Tuesday it used numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rank cities in five areas: state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drink
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stanley cup and then Philadelphia and Providence, R.I., in a tie for ninth.Surprisingly, some cities considered big partying towns didn t rank that high on the Forbes list. Las Vegas, famous for its all-night bars and casinos, came in at no.
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The only thing nerdier than keeping an old NES hooked up to your TV to play your favorite old games is recreating your favorite old games using virtual reality equipment. That exactly what this crew of programmers did recently with Paperboy. A team of supernerds from the custom video game studio Globacore recently built a fully interactive version of the game Paperboy using an Oculus Rift headset, a
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