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...Doctors in the city say the affliction, which affects newcomers like myself disproportionately, is sparked in part by the changing weather and the city's arid climate. But it is the city's heavy air pollution that seems to be the chief culprit in transforming what might be a seasonal irritation into something that can be truly frightening. For one thing, this cough simply won't go away. In my case it lasted for almost four weeks, often improving for a day or two only to return in full force. It's also scarily hard to control, even with medication...
...seven people in the U.S. died after ingesting Tylenol laced with cyanide. In that case, police believe the tampering was deliberate, and may have actually occurred in stores once the bottles had left the manufacturing plants. The culprit was never found...
...which hip curios are in vogue? Poor Mary has already got some preopening scolding. Despite its two-year, nearly sold-out run in London (and an advance sale of more than $20 million in the U.S.), some have deemed the show too dark for delicate American kids. The chief culprit: a new number called Temper, Temper, in which toys in the children's bedroom come to life. The fears are silly; Pinocchio was scarier. But the concerns are rather sweet--as if the critics were inventing some bad behavior for their goody-goody friend to make sure she gets accepted...
...titled "TV Really Might Cause Autism." The piece cited an as yet unpublished study from Cornell University, although not from its medical school. Economist Michael Waldman, of Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, got to thinking that TV watching--already vaguely associated with ADHD--just might be the culprit that tips vulnerable toddlers into autism. That there was no medical research to support the idea didn't faze him. Nor was he deterred by the fact that there are no reliable large-scale data on the viewing habits of kids ages 1 to 3--the period when symptoms...
...point here is not to find a new culprit to blame for the start of the conflict, but rather to admonish the dishonest proposition in the U.S. media that Israel justifiably responded to an unprovoked act of aggression from Hamas. That simply was not the case. And by presenting a fraudulent timeline of events, each media outlet holds responsibility for fundamentally altering how the conflict was perceived...