Word: culprit
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...result, single women with children are three times as likely to file for bankruptcy as single women without children. It's not too hard to figure out that the high cost of raising kids, not women's urge to nurture, is the culprit...
...Still, the FDA says it cannot be sure melamine is the culprit. Here are the chief unanswered questions in the continuing pet-food mystery...
...take the course but juniors and seniors. The Bible's harmful as well as helpful uses must be addressed, which could be done by acknowledging that religious conservatives see the problems as stemming from the abuse of the holy text, while others think the text itself may be the culprit. The course should have a strong accompanying textbook on the model of The Bible and Its Influence but one that is willing to deal a bit more bluntly with the historical warts. And some teacher training is a must: at a bare minimum, about their constitutional obligations...
...beat 'em, change 'em. With malaria causing almost 3 million deaths each year worldwide and mosquitoes being the primary culprit, researchers at Johns Hopkins University genetically engineered insects that were resistant to the malaria parasite. But don't trade in your long-sleeved shirts yet; so far, the mosquitoes have been tested only against a version of the malaria bug that sickens mice...
...important to remember that the real culprit of this fiscal dilemma is neither fiscal irresponsibility nor inability of the UC leadership to budget their finances appropriately, but rather a vibrant student social life, an efficient FiCom doing its job in a timely manner, and a finite UC budget which will inevitably fall short of the demand for student group funding. So long as there is greater student demand than UC funds can accommodate, something’s got to give. The end-of-the-year grants package cut ensures that the UC handles this shortage consistently, fairly, and predictably, without...