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Whatever the mixture of cold-blooded calculation and religious fanaticism that lay behind the deaths, all signs of both method and madness pointed to Jouret as the prime culprit. Born in Kitwit in the Belgian Congo, now Zaire, he went to Brussels in the 1970s for medical training, then moved around the world studying acupuncture and homeopathy, a system of treatment based on minimum doses of medication. Along the way he found himself drawn to the spiritual arcana of the Knights Templar, a mystical brotherhood banned in France in the 14th century. Eventually he joined a French-based group called...
Much work remains before people can benefit from these findings. Researchers have not yet identified the infectious culprit, nor do they know whether the virus is responsible for all Type I diabetes or just for a few unusual cases. But if the Pittsburgh researchers are right, and a vaccine can be developed, the disease could go the way of polio and other childhood scourges conquered by medicine...
...cops themselves rarely blame the obvious culprit -- the tension of living forever in the cross hairs. Veteran officers and the experts who study them agree that the pressure on police officers actually comes from some surprising sources. The most crushing battles, they argue, often occur not on the streets but in the rundown precinct houses, and the courtrooms, and the $ privacy of their own homes. Too often, police complain, the commanders and commissioners who cops imagined would guide and protect them seem to ignore or betray them instead. "Frequently, officers feel that somewhere on the line between lieutenant and captain...
...oldest-ever toxic fallout, long suspected by other scientists, began with pollution from Central European silver refining and other post-Bronze Age industry, and lasted 800 years. With 400 tons of lead found in Greenland alone, the damage rivals that of the 20th century's main culprit: leaded gasoline...
Slaby does have one culprit: guns. Fifty-five percent of the teenage boys who commit suicide do so with a firearm. Citing studies whose findings should be painfully obvious, Slaby concludes, "There is increasing evidence those who do not have access to a gun are not as likely to kill themselves...