Word: culprit
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...hindsight, it's easy to say that the investigators made a mistake in tracking only the total amount of fat consumed and not the saturated and trans fats now known to damage arteries. But all the earlier research on preventing cancer suggested that total fat was the culprit, so investigators decided to concentrate on that...
...Reports of late-night buzz sent officers to Eliot House F-14 on Thursday, Jan. 26. What they encountered was not a party. The culprit: an alarm clock. It was subsequently turned...
...Cook now says he was only "making a general observation" about crocodile relocation. He says the two crocodiles caught and examined for signs they had attacked Barry Jefferies were not relocated animals, all of which are tagged. The second crocodile is believed to have been the culprit, but Mark Read, the head of Queensland's crocodile management program, concedes that officials will never be certain...
...region, where Royal Dutch Shell has drilled for nearly 50 years. "Look at this?the crops are stunted, the water is polluted," rails Bari-Ara Kpalap, grabbing a wilted stalk of cassava as he stands ankle-deep in oily water. For Kpalap, a local activist, there is one obvious culprit: "A great part of our problems have been caused by Shell...
...months ago Sheila White and her boyfriend, Keith O'Neill, woke up with itchy pink raised welts on their arms and legs. Since they often spend hot nights with their windows open, they thought the problem was mosquitoes. But when the bites got worse and no flying culprit appeared in their New York apartment, the pair turned to the Internet. The real perp? Bed bugs...