Word: culprit
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Last week, as a meat-loving nation watched the largest beef recall in history, everyone knew the culprit: a lethal strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli. The bug causes 20,000 infections a year in the U.S., most because of undercooked beef. The typical result is excruciating gastrointestinal distress. But for a few unlucky souls though--usually young children and the elderly--the consequences can be dire, even fatal...
...could Soros have been the culprit? It is certainly possible ? this is, after all, a man who dabbles daily in currency markets to the tune of $1 trillion. But according to TIME Business writer Sribala Subramanian, his Quantum fund merely functions like a de facto Central Bank. Like any good government banker, Soros just goes where the money is ? following the market, rather than any political motive. Perhaps the Malaysian PM should consider a refresher course in Econ...
WASHINGTON: What caused Korean Air Flight 801 to go down on Guam? Federal investigators are starting to develop a clearer picture of the culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...
...this damage may give arteries the scarred and thickened texture that provides circulating cholesterol with a place to stick and grow. In the young boy, accelerated homocysteine production caused by a genetic defect apparently led to accelerated damage. In both instances, however, McCully points to the same chemical culprit. "The underlying cause of heart disease," he says, "is an imbalance in the system that controls homocysteine levels...
...should stop taking fen/phen without consulting a physician; there are dangers in stopping cold turkey, and it is too early to say for certain that the culprit is fen/phen. But health officials are taking no chances. The Food and Drug Administration last week mailed letters to doctors asking them to be on the alert. And the New England Journal of Medicine, which is scheduled to publish the Mayo-MeritCare study in late August, lifted its news embargo seven weeks early. "We don't do that very often--perhaps once or twice a year," says Dr. Gregory Curfman, a deputy editor...