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...market reform. And tensions in South Ossetia and Adzhar, two Georgian regions where ethnic populations are demanding autonomy, threaten Gamsakhurdia's vision of a unified, independent state. Just one month after the entire Soviet Union rocked with revolution, Gamsakhurdia, 52, has a homegrown revolution brewing. But the main culprit in all this is not antidemocratic conspirators -- it is Gamsakhurdia...
...victims of sudden infant death syndrome, a mysterious disorder that seems to occur when infants somehow forget to breathe. But new % evidence from a pair of pediatricians at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that a subtle form of suffocation may be the true culprit in one-quarter to one-half of all suspected SIDS cases. Their conclusion, published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, reflects a growing suspicion among doctors that the position in which these babies slept, face down, may have played a major role in their death...
MEDICINE A new culprit in sudden infant death syndrome...
...Heightening the drama, doctors reveal that both of these diseases hail from the mysterious realm of autoimmune disorders, which occur when the body unaccountably begins attacking itself. Pundits confidently calculate the odds of such a coincidence at 1 in 3 million. Latter-day Clouseaus begin looking everywhere for a culprit. Dan Quayle raises questions about the ancient plumbing at the Naval Observatory -- the official 100-year-old vice-presidential residence, which the Bushes occupied for eight years. Suspicion spreads to other sources of presidential water, which are tested for the presence of toxic levels of iodine or lithium...
...notion of them? Insofar as Ellis has deliberately created a monstrous deformity, it is nonetheless striking that the monster is male, and preys mostly on women; and insofar as he intends a closer identification with his creation, the author himself is implicated in the guilt. In either case, the culprit is a male, and the novel is unlikely to endear the unfairer sex to a nation that is already all too conscious of the harm...