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...dizziness can also be caused by a variety of treatable disorders, including degenerative joint disease in the neck, damaged blood vessels in the brain and cardiovascular illnesses, such as coronary-artery disease and a slow heartbeat. Identifying the culprit can be particularly difficult in older patients who commonly suffer from more than one health problem at a time...
Many people dichotomize between the six-year-old and his father. The boy is a victim of a corrupting environment; the man is the culprit, the one who shaped the environment. But of course the man was himself shaped--perhaps corrupted--by an early environment. I don't know the details of his life, but I'll bet he didn't prep at Choate...
...culprit, according to Lampoon President Stephen C. Hely '02, was Lampoon editor Jacob F. Lentz...
...some 6,000 teens will be killed in crashes of cars driven by teens; an additional 600,000 teens will be injured. Drunk driving contributes to fewer teen accidents these days, thanks to zero-tolerance laws and higher alcohol-purchase ages. By addressing the far more common culprit of driver error, graduated-licensing programs should further reduce the teen-driving toll...
...this was not mere vandalism either; too much planning had gone into it. Phase 1 took place as early as last year. The culprit first scanned the Internet for vulnerable networks to use as unwitting allies in the final attack. Small businesses and universities, where security is often more lax, are prime targets. Both Stanford and the University of California at Santa Barbara had been co-opted. A UCSB computer participated in the CNN website attack. Even the Navy's computers may have been enlisted as unwilling dupes...