Word: culprit
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...intruder robbing their room. The thief was stealing what amounted to be the third laptop that was snatched from Quincy students in the past week. One victim of the theft, Olivia A. Benowitz ’09, described waking up to find a man going through her purse. The culprit offered her a story about how he was a neighbor who was looking for a quarter so that he could call the American Automobile Association. “It was just so scary,” Benowitz said. “I can’t tell you how frightening...
...easily, 23-7, but through no fault of Blackmon’s replacement, then-rookie Michael DiMaggio, who rushed for 83 yards and scored a touchdown.When the Quakers lose to Lafayette tomorrow, I suspect that once again DiMaggio, a potential star in this league, will not be the culprit. Penn’s defense is good, but so is the Leopards’. And with Lafayette senior tailback Maurice White exploding onto the scene with 318 rushing yards in his first two games as a starter, the numbers just don’t add up for the Quakers.Prediction: Lafayette...
Another possible culprit: those addictive lattes. Caffeine is a diuretic that is believed to increase the urge to urinate. Though the association between caffeine and incontinence requires further study, Nygaard suggests that for women who know they already have incontinence, it doesn't hurt to "keep caffeine down to one or two cups...
...height of the housing bubble, from 2004 to 2006, the market share for GSES shrank toward the single digits. So if you're looking for a culprit for the bubble and bust, Frannie really isn't the best candidate. In one recent paper, three California real estate scholars even argue that it was in fact the absence of Fannie and Freddie and their reasonably tight underwriting standards that caused the bubble...
...these hurricanes in such a short period of time begs the question: are storms getting stronger, and if so, what's causing it? According to a new paper in Nature, the answer is yes - and global warming seems to be the culprit. Researchers led by James Elsner, a meteorologist at Florida State University, analyzed satellite-derived data of tropical storms since 1981 and found that the maximum wind speeds of the strongest storms have increased significantly in the years since, with the most notable increases found in the North Atlantic and the northern Indian oceans. They believe that rising ocean...