Word: culprit
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...something has put a hex on your sex drive, the culprit may be a medicine that you're taking. Various blood-pressure medications, antidepressants, antihistamines, heart drugs and some antibiotics have been implicated in interfering with sex drive or performance. If there's a problem, check with your physician to see if it makes medical sense to adjust the dosage of your prescription...
...papers that had blocks of six or more words in a row in common. It found a lot more than that: 122 of his students are now up on charges that they copied their work; and at U.Va., famous for its honor code, that means expulsion. The real culprit? Bloomfield blames e-mail for the cheating epidemic, which makes it easier for students to pass papers around promiscuously. He who lives by the sword...
...environmentalists. They view the Administration plans to spend $2 billion on "clean coal technology" as a wasteful subsidy to an industry that has long dodged pollution controls. Harmful emissions have been reduced 70% since 1970, but critics argue there has been no cut in CO2 emissions, a major culprit in global warming...
...environmentalists. They view the Administration plans to spend $2 billion on "clean coal technology" as a wasteful subsidy to an industry that has long dodged pollution controls. Harmful emissions have been reduced 70% since 1970, but critics argue there has been no cut in CO2 emissions, a major culprit in global warming...
...comes word that snacks are in fact a bigger culprit than anyone realized. By analyzing data from three national food surveys, researchers from the University of North Carolina determined that children are eating a lot more snacks than they did three decades ago. How much more? Kids today consume 25% of their calories between meals, compared with 18% in the 1970s. The biggest changes occurred after 1989, mirroring the rapid increase in childhood obesity...