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...introduced it to the camp area? The disease detectives had to find not a microbe but a man. In an epidemic of food poisoning by salmonella in Sioux City, Iowa, it was not the microbe but its means for spreading infection that had to be tracked down. The culprit was a machine-a meat slicer...
Russian doctors who wrote the first comprehensive reports on the disease -after a 1913 outbreak in Vladivostok -suspected a rodent-borne virus, but neither they nor later researchers were ever able to isolate the culprit. Lee himself made little progress until 1971, when a member of his team assigned to catch rodents for research was suddenly felled by hemorrhagic fever. The lab was immediately quarantined and work interrupted for several months, but the incident made Lee even more certain that the carrier was indeed a rodent. During seven years, the research team collected more than 2,400 mice and other...
Television's Kojak, Columbo and Baretta are dazzling crime solvers. A combination of underground contacts, inside knowledge and outside hunches invariably puts a culprit behind bars (or in the morgue) before the last commercial. But real police detection, according to a new study by the Rand Corp., is far less successful. "The image of the detective as a guy with a network of informants who can help him crack cases is a myth," says Peter Greenwood, 36, the management analyst who directed the two-year survey of 156 U.S. police departments. Whether or not a case will be solved...
...first culprit on the list for failing to contribute "that something special" is the Harvard Band, whose between-period numbers were nice, but whose lull-in-the-action inputs were non-existent. It's against ECAC rules to play music while action in a game is going on, but how many small breaks were there when nothing was forthcoming from the musicians in the corner? Too many...
...placing the lowest classification on the cable ("Limited Official Use") and asking that it go to all U.S. embassies round the world, Moynihan must have known that the chances of it becoming public were high. Though there were suspicions that Moynihan himself leaked the cable, the actual culprit was a State Department source friendly to Moynihan and his policies...