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...wake of a similar wholesale crash of the system that sent the Northeast into darkness 38 years ago, the powers that be said they had enacted safeguards to ensure that such an epic loss wouldn't happen again. The experts assumed that if something went wrong, the culprit would be an act of nature, an equipment failure or a human error--any of which they could contain. But it is now obvious that a single failure can still ripple through the complex interconnections and delicate balance of supply and demand that govern the nation's electric supply--with disastrous results...
...links to the efforts of Dr. Robert Atkins, whose get-thin-quick regimen became famous in the '70s for letting dieters have their steak and eat it too. Atkins controverted conventional dietary wisdom by asserting that eating fatty foods like bacon wasn't what caused weight gain. The real culprit, he said, was carbohydrates--the sugar and starch that are especially abundant in junk food. An estimated 25 million dieters have tried to follow his edict that if deprived of carbs as a source of energy, the body will burn fat. Although doctors and dietitians dismissed the Atkins plan...
...alert! Ice cream is more fattening than you think, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a health-advocacy group. The culprit isn't necessarily the Ben & Jerry's in your freezer, but also the ice cream--shop treats laden with sugary toppings. They can pack the calories of three cheeseburgers and a day and a half's worth of saturated fat. --By Nadia Mustafa
...found evidence of an Iraq-Al Qaeda link. More interesting, perhaps, is how the number of Americans suspecting an Iraq link to the events of 9/11 grew in the year following the attacks: Within days of the attacks, only 3 percent cited Iraq as a possible culprit. Yet, by January of this year, 44 percent were telling pollsters they believed Saddam was involved, and a similar number believed most or some of the hijackers were Iraqi nationals. (None were...
...will be tough for theaters like ours in the next few years," says Daniel Cartier, projection manager at the illustrious Le Champo cinema, which has been run by the same family since 1939. Despite the theater's overall historic popularity, a recent James Bond revival was poorly attended. The culprit is obvious, at least to Cartier: the series' ubiquity on home video. "A decade ago, these seats would have been filled," he insists. With 49.2 million DVDs sold in France last year, the home-video market is booming. More and more classic films are becoming available, and if a movie...