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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 26 2008 | drinks, health, economics
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    Articles like this are precisely why I love Slate so much...

    Quoted: Hangovers are not serious enough to be considered a medical condition, and there is, actually, no remedy for them—apart from old wives' tales and roast beef. They're neither a bad cold nor the flu, though they're serious enough to keep some in bed. But are hangovers always bad?

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