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Some preliminary studies and a slew of lawsuits contend that living near electrical power lines causes everything from cancer to miscarriage. Even your toaster, some say, could be a culprit...
Elections for the Strasbourg-based assembly, once consigned to the status of a European debating society, are fast becoming a bellwether for European politics. Thatcher aides sought to downplay the Tory defeat by arguing that the culprit was domestic discontent with Britain's 15% interest rates and 8.3% inflation. Even critics within her own party scoffed, blaming her Britain- first, anti-European rhetoric at a time when Europe is moving toward economic integration in 1992. Said a Tory backbencher: "She got it drastically wrong...
Truitt, on leave from the Iowa, flatly denied that he or Hartwig was a culprit. At a press conference with his wife last week, he claimed that the rumors proved that the Navy was "at a loss" to explain the tragedy. Said the sailor: "They're just looking for a scapegoat...
...security guard in the Yard reports objects being thrown from a window at Canaday Hall. Police respond, hearing that a person was nearly struck by one of the items. The culprit cannot be found. A student tells The Crimson that the objects were books belonging to an exam-weary Yardling...
Doctors have long known about other risk factors for cervical cancer, including sexual activity at an early age and sex with multiple partners. And they have implicated some types of human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts, as the probable culprit. The University of Utah researchers, however, could only speculate about a possible mechanism by which smoking may cause cervical cancer. Harmful components of cigarette smoke, they suggest, may travel through the blood into the tissues of the cervix and somehow activate the virus...