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...also toned down its condemnations of atrocities, obscuring the main culprit in the conflict. In recent Congressional testimony, Christopher tried to spread the blame for atrocities around...
...search for a culprit has been complicated by Indian customs. Navajos do not speak of the dead for fear it might slow the spirit's trip to the afterlife. Nor do they permit autopsies. Tribal members tend to view an untimely death with shame, since it might be interpreted as punishment for bad living. Indeed, some Indian elders were linking the illness to the adoption of fast food, MTV and video games. In radio broadcasts, Navajo president Peterson Zah beseeched his intensely private people to cooperate with health-care workers...
Elsi is only the beginning of a long, paper-filled maze of agencies. Sallie Mae, the Student Loan Marketing Association, is the real culprit. Sallie Mae is no Madonna, but she probably makes more money in a year from poor saps like me than Madonna will make in her whole career. Sallie Mae and Madonna do, however, have one thing in common: bondage. One temptress' whips and chains are another's default notices...
...evidence gathered from animal experiments and epidemiological surveys points to the high-energy, shorter-wave ultraviolet-B portion of the sun's radiation as the main culprit in causing basal- and squamous-cell cancer. (Sunburns are also caused by UV-B radiation, wrinkles by the weaker UV-A part of the spectrum.) Since no animals other than humans and opossums suffer from malignant melanoma, researchers still do not know exactly what causes that more deadly disease. Most dermatologists have long assumed that sunburn-causing UV-B must be a greater threat than UV-A. As a result, sunscreen manufacturers originally...
MOST OUTBREAKS OF FOOD POISONING ARE TRACED to contaminated meat. Federal investigators have now identified another potential culprit: fresh apple cider, the kind sold at roadside stands or refrigerated in plastic jugs. Tracking a 1991 Massachusetts outbreak of infection with dangerous E. coli bacteria, researchers discovered that most of the 23 victims drank unpasteurized, unpreserved cider purchased at a local farm stand. Scientists warn that some small cider mills do not carefully wash and scrub their apples, which may have dropped to the ground and been tainted with animal droppings. The drink had been thought safe because of its acidity...