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...both sides the issue of culpability is as important as compensation, and that question still lingers. The veterans and chemical companies both point the finger at Washington. "The real culprit here is the Federal Government," said a lawyer involved in the case. "The companies were told to make the Agent Orange at Government specifications. A lot of this was really misdirected." Attempts by the veterans to sue the military have thus far been blocked by a 1950 decision, Feres vs. United States, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Government cannot be held liable for injuries that...
What seems to be getting through is the notion that the city's self-conscious neighborhood orientation is the real culprit. "Community groups have begun to talk to each other, they have crossed neighborhood lines, which is an enormous transition for a city like Boston that was built on neighborhoods," White says. The city has changed not because of say lecturing from the papers of political leaders running for or away from the issue," he adds...
There was much to learn. Cholesterol, as Shragai found out, is packaged by the body in envelopes of protein, and only some of these packages are potentially harmful. The main culprit, LDL (for low-density lipoprotein), is the body's oil truck, circulating in the blood, delivering fat and cholesterol to the cells. Studies have shown that the higher the level of LDL, the greater the risk of atherosclerosis. Another type of cholesterol package is called HDL (for high-density lipoprotein). It appears to play a salutary role, helping remove cholesterol from circulation and reducing the risk of heart...
Reagan would do well to open his eyes to what these buyouts mean for his rosy economic plans. While his huge budget deficit is the most obvious culprit in tightening up the loan market, $12 billion and $13 billion loans to oil companies to engage in utterly unproductive takeovers further restrict available credit with nothing to show afterward except inflated (or bruised) corporate egos and wealthy lawyers. (Socal's bankers and attorneys walked off with $60 million when the dust settled...
...intriguing links. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health and long a believer in retroviruses as the cause of human AIDS, asserts, "If a disease which is at least similar has been isolated and transmitted by a retrovirus which is similar to the No. 1 suspected culprit in humans, that suggests we can do the same thing in humans...