Drinking won't just make you the life of the party...it will prolong your life. A new study finds that "non-drinkers who begin taking the occasional tipple live longer and are less likely to develop heart disease." Perhaps scientists will soon prove another hunch of mine: Drinking gin directly from the bottle raises one's IQ. Unfortunately, the study was not all sunshine and daisies. "[M]en who had five or more drinks on days they did drink were 30 percent more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke than men who had just one drink a day--regardless of what their average drinking intake was."