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...issue is very much on the agenda this week as representatives of more than 150 nations gathered in Kyoto, Japan, wrangle over how to cut emissions of man-made carbon dioxide, a culprit in the ominous warming of the global climate. In the U.S., the vehicle population has grown six times as fast as the human population, reaching 176 million cars and trucks. American autos are 90% cleaner than they were three decades ago, but they still account for over a third of urban-area ozone. More than 125 million Americans breathe unhealthy air, and an estimated...
...when it comes to running its own financial empire, the Journal's owner, Dow Jones & Co., has fallen woefully short. Despite a banner year at the paper, the 115-year-old company announced last month that it will register its first loss since going public 34 years ago. The culprit: Dow Jones Markets, the company's crippled financial-information unit (formerly called Telerate), which has been beaten badly by more sophisticated rivals such as Reuters and Bloomberg. Recently, the company scaled back an ambitious $650 million rescue plan and began firing senior managers at the division, in what Wall Street...
Herschbach and Woodward continued to joke about the painting for many years. Woodward named Herschbach as the culprit in a magazine article years later...
...first, we suspected hackers. But closer examination revealed an unlikely culprit: Microsoft's Internet Explorer. More precisely, the latest, just released 4.0 version of that fabled and controversial browser...
With amazing prescience, Chall foresaw what would happen if phonics instruction was taken too far. "[W]e will be confronted in 10 or 20 years with another best seller: Why Robert Can't Read. The culprit in this angry book will be the 'prevailing' [phonics] approach... The suggested cure will be a 'natural' approach--one that teaches whole words and emphasizes reading for meaning and appreciation at the very beginning." The rise of whole language perfectly corresponds to this scenario...