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...crashing comet, wayward black hole or alien spacecraft level the forest around Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908? None of the above. A computer model by NASA scientists revealed that the likely culprit was a stony asteroid -- 30 m (100 ft.) in diameter -- that exploded...
Harvard's fattening food is not the only culprit, say other students. They say the college environment fosters an overwhelming group pressure to diet or to engage in abnormal eating behaviors...
There is only one culprit in this unfortunate situation and that is the University. The decision to house students at 29 Garden St. betrayed a fundamental mission of the first year experience: to promote cohesiveness within the class...
...Stripes. In fact, she left L.A. and moved back to London because she felt "there isn't any American culture." But this year's shenanigans have no justification. To point to a leader who symbolizes the Catholic Church and the values which it embodies and brand him the culprit of unfortunate social ills makes no sense. Insulting a religious group to make a political statement shows poor taste and amounts to little more than a cheap ploy for attention on Sinead's part. Sinead's Rolling Stone photo shows her in a shirt which reads "Recovering Catholic." Maybe Catholicism...
...will never be found -- investigators searched for an explanation. El Al says an engine fire on the same plane last July was unrelated to the disaster. But recurring problems with microscopic cracks on the "fuse pins" that connect engines to the wings of Boeing jumbo jets are a possible culprit. As yet, there is no evidence linking fuse pins and the crash. But a similar crash in China last December led to a Federal Aviation Administration directive requiring fuse-pin inspection on early-model 747s. (See related story on page...