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Endowment numbers. the stunning numbers part of a new 43-page report first seen by fox news and released by open the book. i spoke with their founder. >> its a bull market for government contracting at the ivy league. nearly $26 billion of federal contracts and grants. it dwarfs the number of tuition collected at the ivy league by $22 billion collected over the last six years. >> open the book studies all eight ivy league schools to understand their sources of funding. some of the federal fundin...

So the issue is that alcohol has dangerous effects. if you drink and its depressant and puts people to sleep. if youre a sleepy drunk and you fall asleep thats the end of the drinking right there, right? if youre awake and really amped up and drinking a lot of alcohol you might continue to drink a lot more and you can have all kinds of dangerous effects from that. people can die from binge drinking and there is a lot more assaults, motor vehicle accidents, all kinds of things can happen when peo...

We think after the new years well reset, get back into our routine. a short period of time, this can affect us. our liver is important. it does a number of different things. digests fats, it clears drugs, it breaks down toxins. it filters our blood. when this happens, the fatty acids can build up. our body may not be able to break down drugs. the blood pressure medications. those can build up. our blood pressure may drop. side effects may occur. even for a short period of time, this can have a h...

Time of year that you get whispers. its the holidays. why did you feel drawn to this project? >> i just thought it was a great opportunity to do what ellen was talking about was really help people realize that theres 30% of american that is meet criteria for alcohol use disorder at some point in their life, im binge drinking, all the way to severe end in which you saw in the clip. jenna: how do you know? what are the real signs? i would love to hear from the documentary, carrie, your first take,...

Binge drinking, which is a big fashion and women are actually getting involved in this. whats the definition of binge drinking? >> doesnt that also depend on your weight and how much youve had to eat. >> of course. >> but women have less of that enzyme. if we both go out to drink, youll get drunk faster than me because im -- that was a bad imitation of donald trump. binge drinking is about four drinks for you in two hours. >> okay. >> five drinks for me in two hours. thats the definition of bing...

Everybody is out there drinking. alcohol is a great, great social lubricant. thats how we socialize with everybody. thats how it takes your fear of approaching somebody away. when you get to the bar and start having shots and then you have the wine and start mixing things up, its five drinks within two hours, thats binge drinking for men. when happens when you start drinking? alcohol goes into your stomach, into your blood and to the liver. liver is the belt filter we have. it starts metabolizin...

Heard, checked himself into a mental health center. we learned today that he told the officials hed been binge drinking, but you see the equipment thats set up there on the side. they have a little tent set up so if they do find anything, they can process it there and photograph it. so again we dont know what it is theyre looking for. theyve clearly been told that theres something in this lake. whether thats true or not, well have to wait and find out. these pictures remind me of the fbis search...

Clear to not drink at all. he simply said we dont know how much is safe, therefore, i cannot in good conscience tell you how much is okay. as i said on the "today" show this morning, i think we all have this urban myth that one drink a week okay. thats not a formal guideline anywhere. the science sense that we dont have a clear consensus on how little is okay, but we do have very clear data that both moderate drinking, which is one drink a day, as well as binge drinking, which for women is four ...

Four drinks in one occasion thats a definition of binge drinking. excessive drinking is two drinks a day. eight to ten in a week is excessive drinking then you have alcoholism. these are the behavioral changes. people that dont show up to work, it affects their productivity. thats a real problem. its important to really distinguish. you can be a binge drinker and not an alcoholic. they go to work but set themselves up for accidents. we see $249 billion effective excessive drinking in america and...

Well. they are cheek by jowl with their israeli citizen neighbors. so trying to predict which one will pull out a knife and attack is difficult because they dont have criminal records and theyre not attached to any terrorist organization. for israeli intelligence, very difficult for police, very difficult to stop and police have tried to do that by smothering this city with check points, with -- we have seen soldiers as well as police making it very difficult for ordinary palestinian ups to move...