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...provisions. Though some resuscitation of gun control might still be possible in conference negotiations with the Senate, which last month passed gun-show and other controls, Friday?s House outcome left the issue a legislative corpse for the moment, and the two parties are in search of a culprit...
...least three other junior Faculty departures this year. The economics and government departments also saw significant departures of assistant and associate professors. While some of these departing professors complain about Harvard's tenure system, others point to intense competition in the academic job market--especially the humanities--as the culprit...
...Center. Many people also believe, erroneously, that flavor is perceived through taste alone; in fact, smell supplies all the nuances of flavor, enabling us to distinguish, say, one fruit from another. Smell is more fragile than taste, and thus loss of the sense of smell is the more likely culprit when flavor perception wanes...
...soon confirmed what Richard Smith already suspected: that someone had hijacked skyroket@aol.com's account. (The real owner, Scott Steinmetz of Lynnwood, Wash., squeezed a good 15 min. of fame out of the mix-up.) The culprit, AOL discovered, had logged on from New Jersey. A high-tech FBI-police unit there narrowed the possibilities still further. "Eventually," says deputy attorney general Christopher Bubb, "we were able to trace it back to the specific telephone that was being used." It belonged to David Smith...
Like the quickest kid in the hunt on Easter Sunday, many investors end up with a lot of eggs in one basket. It's not really their fault. The rapid rise of stock-based compensation at work is a primary culprit--and who's going to knock programs that grant stock options and otherwise stuff employee accounts with company shares through stock-purchase, profit-sharing and 401(k) plans? The problem is that many folks end up with their retirement dreams tethered to a single stock...