Word: explainer
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There are no revelations in Uneasy Rider, and Bryan's occasionally aimless doodlings don't always get many miles to the gallon. But he does explain (in a footnote) why the Chevy Caprice is "the unofficial freedom-mobile in the Middle East"; that cows in Arizona used to feed on cantaloupes and honeydews; and why Sierra Blanca, Texas, receives 225 wet tons of New York City sludge each day. Listening to the routinely outsize tales of ordinary Americans with an amiable deadpan worthy of Richard Ford, he suggests that distance makes the head grow fonder too. People who buy snakes...
...DIEGO: Researchers have identified a gene which triggers inherited prostate cancer, according to a new Johns Hopkins study. The finding could help explain why the cancer occurs one-third more often among black men, since the gene appears to be more common in blacks. The newly located gene, HPC1, is believed responsible for at least one-third of all inherited forms of prostate cancer. After analyzing 103 families with a history of the illness in the U.S. and Sweden, researchers found that the HPC1 gene was present in five of six black families studied. The study also suggested that carriers...
...currently have 78% of the business will soon have all of it. They "would own all the doctors and hospitals and could charge us whatever they wanted," says a company official. Well before things got to that pass, companies' premium bills were rising rapidly, and no one could quite explain why. "We were writing checks into a system where we didn't know what we were getting for services in return," says Fred Hamacher, vice president of compensation and benefits for the Dayton Hudson department-store chain--though he did suspect that "there was a lot of administrative gobbledygook that...
...church teaches that people who believe are already incorporated into the kingdom of God. That may explain why there is less focus on the hereafterness of heaven. (The Rev.) LAWRENCE R. CAMBERG Bethesda Lutheran Church Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania...
...unkindest cut? Contrary to current thinking, CIRCUMCISION may not protect against sexually transmitted disease, though researchers can't explain why. In fact, the incidence of chlamydia may be 25 times as high among circumcised...