You can also add a little more booze as well.

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One of the reasons booze helps people be more creative is by softening focus and broadening the scope of attention.

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Which seems to be claiming that checking Twitter and Facebook is better, or perhaps more addictive, than sex, booze or even tobacco.

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Uncertainty over the sale of the state-owned copper mines could cause the kwacha to devalue, however, bringing the cost of a booze-up in Lusaka more in line with the African average.

ECONOMIST: Through a glass, drunkenly

On a happier note, Russians and Croatians clearly like to party: They set aside 6% and 5% of their budgets for booze, tobacco and narcotics, more than the rest of the countries on our list, while Saudi Arabians' conservative intake barely registers in the numbers.

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More medicine was prescribed in 2009 to wean people off booze.

ECONOMIST: Cheap booze

His latest: an alcohol-spiked spring water called DNA. Coming in a 0.35-liter clear bottle, the peach-flavored beverage doesn't taste like booze, but it does contain 5% alcohol slightly more than most beers.

FORBES: Soda jerk

To understand this way first requires understanding why booze helps people solve puzzles which, in turn, requires understanding a bit more about how creativity works in the brain.

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But there are now more than 30 supermarkets and cash-and-carry stores in Calais specifically catering for the cross-Channel booze trade, including outlets of Britain's biggest supermarkets, Tesco and Sainsbury.

ECONOMIST: Smuggling