Living: One Less for the Road?

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"Project Graduation" helps turn student parties into giant rallies for the cause, involving parents, businessmen and local leaders. Jerry Sachs, president of the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., has signed on as chairman of Washington Regional Alcohol Program. WRAP has got disk jockeys to broadcast antidrinking messages on prom nights, cabbies to donate free rides, local sports stars to do commercials against drunk driving. Sachs seems awed to be enveloped by the grass-roots movement. "One day, it dawned on me that I could get involved with this issue and have an effect on society," he says. "There are so few issues where you can have an impact." More and more citizens are finding, as Sachs did, that the impact can be dramatic.