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...more meat. Since animals are higher on the food chain, it takes more pure vegetation to yield the same number of calories in meat-form than it would by consuming the plants themselves. This puts a strain on the global demand for plant matter. But far and away, the culprit for these soaring prices is corn. Last year, 20 percent of the crop was siphoned off to make ethanol, the forerunner of the bio-fuel movement, putting a pinch on the rest of the supply. This sparked a huge chain of events: as the supply of corn for food decreased...
...STAY WARM The price of wheat reached an all-time high of more than $12 per bu. on Feb. 25. The culprit, in part, was the price of crude oil, which has surged back above $100 per bbl. Ironically, high prices for basic foods like potatoes and eggs have also been causing unrest in the oil-rich Middle East...
...snow blanketed the campus during this season’s latest snowstorm on Friday, global warming was not deemed the culprit of the latest round of wet boots and dangerous slips outside Lamont library, according to one Harvard meteorologist...
...hope that eventually, maybe one day, these questions will be answered. He does latch onto some specifics about how we can move past playing the race card. He does diagnose the problem of the race card: it hinders our progress in abolishing racism. And he does label the culprit that prevents us from moving forward: the terms of our current racial dialogue. The language of racial dialogue is archaic, and its failure to adequately deal with current issues ensures that the race card keeps getting played. Without new dialogue, Ford argues, the race card will not go away...
...also shifted, according to a paper published last month in the journal PLoS Medicine. In the 1970s, most plague cases were in Asia; today, more than 90% are in Africa. The conundrum for epidemiologists: Why is human plague reappearing now, even though nearby animal populations have likely harbored the culprit Yersinia pestis bacteria all along...