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...Foam has been singled out as the culprit, butit isn't. The average life span of a landfill is10 years. If we got rid of all foam products, wewould only extend the life of a landfill by onemonth. The CFC resulting from foam products isonly one-one thousandth of 1 percent of thehazards to the ozone layer...
...alcohol abuse accounts for more family troubles than any other single factor. A Gallup poll this year found that one in four families reported a problem with liquor at home, the highest reported rate since 1950 and twice the 1974 rate. According to Health Secretary Bowen, alcohol is the culprit in 40% of family-court cases and accounts for between 25% and 50% of violence between spouses and a third of child-molestation incidents...
...cancer of the liver, lung, pancreas, colon and rectum. In October a team led by Dr. Charles Lieber, a leading alcoholism researcher at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical . Center in New York City, reported that it had isolated a possible link between alcohol and cancer in humans. The culprit appears to be a member of the family of enzymes called cytochrome P-450s. In the presence of alcohol, the cytochrome can turn certain chemicals in the body into carcinogens...
...most arbitragers were on the sidelines last Monday because the computers that track prices had fallen hopelessly behind. The real culprit was a variation of program trading called portfolio insurance. This is a defensive strategy designed to protect stock portfolios against market downturns. Rather than sell stocks as their prices are falling, portfolio insurers sell stock- index futures. If the decline persists, the futures can be repurchased at a lower level, yielding a substantial profit that will offset some of the loss sustained on the stocks. But traders who buy the futures hedge their positions by making computer-aided sales...
DelaRosa said he later learned that Stone, aformer Kirkland I-Entry resident, was robbed twicelast year and that the culprit had never beencaught...