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...enamel. Diet sodas were just as bad as regular sodas, and canned iced tea caused 30 times the damage of fresh-brewed tea or coffee. The worst offenders were noncolas like Mountain Dew, which caused two to five times as much damage as the cola drinks. The main culprit in this dental destruction, says Fraunhofer, is the presence of chemicals, such as citric, malic and tartaric acids, that are added to impart tartness to the drinks. Of the soft drinks tested, the one that caused virtually no harm to teeth was A&W root beer. Reason: it has the fewest...
...even minor signs of trouble. Today more than one-quarter of U.S. births are by C-section (up from 5% in 1970), though fear of malpractice suits is just one factor in the trend. Meanwhile, medical research has been challenging the conventional wisdom that birth trauma was the principal culprit in cerebral palsy. "There seems to be no scientific question that most of that injury [cerebral palsy] occurs prenatally and is not related to the delivery," says Dr. H. David Bruton, whose partner was a defendant in a lawsuit argued by Edwards and who later served as North Carolina...
...supply like northern Africa and central Asia. Renewables like windmills and solar panels are part of the solution - the number has grown exponentially in the past five years in Europe - but aren't dependable. There's an equally urgent need for investment in transmission and distribution, often the chief culprit in blackouts. Colette Lewiner, a Paris-based energy expert at consultants Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, points to two problems. Unlike power generation, transmission and distribution networks are "natural" monopolies that can't be liberalized; it makes no sense to build competing electric lines. Regulators have pressured transmission companies...
...negotiation so that allies and domestic voters alike will not carp that war is his primary tool of foreign policy. "It seems both sides don't want to compromise," says Lee Jung Hoon, a political scientist at Yonsei University in Seoul. "But neither wants to be seen as the culprit for the lack of progress...
...article for The Washington Post, Dale Russakoff claimed to have discovered the original authors of the plaque: Stanley Stefancic and Tom Sugimoto, graduate students at Harvard in the mid-60s. Since then, the plaque has been stolen and replaced, with no clues as to the identity of the culprit...