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...rash of thefts of women's undergarments has swept the MIT campus this month, prompting the police there to organize a campus-wide search for the culprit based on a composite sketch of the man thought to be the perpetrator of the crimes...
Though it seems clear to Spanish medical authorities that improperly processed rapeseed oil is the culprit, doctors are still baffled about the precise cause of the strange malady. Samples analyzed so far have contained a number of foreign compounds, among them aniline, azobenzene, and anilide oils. But none of them has previously given rise to the symptoms common to the Spanish epidemic. Similarly, a number of treatments-ranging from megadoses of vitamin E to antibiotics and cortisone-have been tried, but no effective remedy has been found. Researchers were also puzzled by the fact that the disease struck some members...
Cigarette smoking is a top-ranking coronary culprit. It speeds up the heart rate, raises blood pressure and constricts blood vessels. Smokers in the U.S. are twice as likely as non-smokers to have heart attacks. And while tobacco users are most often warned about lung cancer, statistics show that their chances of developing fatal heart disease are three times as great. The American Heart Association estimates that more than 120,000 deaths from heart disease could be avoided each year in the U.S. if people gave up cigarettes...
...real culprit could be inverse racism. The reporter, a black woman, could have been put under additional pressure so that this "progressive" journal, which hires blacks and women, could point to their accomplishments...
...York State Attorney General Robert Abrams was trying to smash a ring of ghostwriters who sell term papers to college students. Instead of cocaine or marijuana, the evidence included papers with titles like "The Importance of Fate in Romeo and Juliet" and "Mycenaean and Minoan Architecture." The culprit: a term-paper mill named Collegiate Research Systems Inc. that sells roughly 500 ghostwritten essays in a good month from a 305-page catalogue, grossing about...