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...afford to keep up? The hundreds of protesters gathered for a rally outside Dancers' Group on its final night knew the culprit all too well: those well-funded, profit-challenged dotcoms. "They come here for the freak culture, but they don't realize they're destroying it," thundered a speaker to rapturous applause...
...athlete's red blood cell count, can improve an athlete's performance in a 20-min. run by 30 sec., but it is otherwise a nightmare of a drug. Overdose on EPO, and the blood becomes too thick for the heart to pump. EPO is believed to be the culprit in no fewer than 25 mysterious deaths among world-class cyclists since...
...scientists and consumers are faced with a different question: What exactly is in the coffee that could be causing such problems? Caffeine immediately comes to mind, but is unlikely to be the culprit. No other study that has attempted to link environmental influences with the development of RA has shown that caffeine has any association at all. There are, however, several other chemicals in coffee that some studies have shown can be health-altering, including small compounds called diterpenes. More than one study has already shown that diterpenes can potentially increase the LDL (bad) cholesterol...
...President Clinton surely hoped that sanctions and cruise missiles would have long ago dispatched Saddam to the garbage pail of history, but now he has to digest the irksome reality that the Iraqi dictator is likely to survive his own administration. The culprit here may be Clinton himself, because his administration has conspicuously failed to formulate a viable Iraq policy. Back in 1991, President Bush held back from destroying Saddam's regime out of concern for regional stability. The collapse of the ethnic-minority regime in Baghdad would almost certainly cause the Shiite majority in the south to ally with...
...case of teacher shortages in many cities, the major culprit is salaries that haven't kept pace with those available elsewhere in a hot economy. Says Bill Frio, head recruiter for the Los Angeles police department: "We really didn't have a problem increasing our numbers until the economy just went gangbusters. And at that point, we realized that we're in competition with major corporations that can offer kids stock options...