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...headphones as we walk to class; we read as we eat meals; and we talk on the cell phone as we drive to work, sipping scalding hot coffee all the while—this, as it happens, is just plain dangerous. I’m as much a culprit as the next guy—right now, I’m drinking a cup of cocoa (with marshmallows) and listening to music (Dismemberment Plan’s “Change”) as I write...
...believe, was a malevolent nerd with chemistry-lab expertise and a grudge against the government. But when traces of the biological toxin ricin showed up in Senator Bill Frist's mail room last week, the FBI and other agencies declared there was no evidence pointing to either a foreign culprit or a mad scientist. One possibility under examination: a good ole boy who knows his way around 18-wheelers, weigh stations and CB radios...
Every student has his or her own theory as to why our campus seems romantically challenged. While the explanations might vary over the years, many students identify problems with their fellow peers—and not their own lack of initiative—as the culprit of their love life deficiency. A Crimson article published in 1993 cited Harvard women’s less than perfect presentation as a significant contributor to the problem. “Harvard men see a pretty wide cross-section of the Harvard female population. But when they watch Florida State football games...
...appearance of avian flu in July, and the apparent Vietnamese cover-up, would mean that this virus has had months to roll through the chicken population, possibly mutating and becoming more pathogenic as it goes. The culprit this time is the same as in Hong Kong in 1997: the H5N1 influenza virus. Historically, this virus has wreaked havoc mainly on poultry. Among chickens, the disease manifests itself as a hemorrhagic fever, turning a pen of healthy birds into a bloody mass of goop and feathers within 24 hours. Since the 1960s, each reported appearance of the disease has drawn...
Junior guard Kevin Rogus, the Crimson’s most accurate three-point shooter entering the night, was the biggest culprit, hitting only one of his nine attempts and missing all seven of his shots from behind the arc in the second half...