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Angered by the media's interest in the rabbi angle, local Hasidim offered semantic rebuttals ("everybody in this community is a rabbi"), Talmudic hairsplitting (the principal culprit wasn't a real rabbi because he didn't head a synagogue), and angst (who will tell the bad news to the aged chief rabbi?)
The culprit here is the school bag which every student carries to the school crammed with books and they end up with various back-related problems, such as backaches or backbone injuries.
David Frum's new book, How We Got Here , diverges from this hypothesis and designates as the true culprit the 1970s.
Also, although there is some mention of the role computerized trading played in the recent intense action, there's not much discussion of how such trading differs nowadays from say, the 1987 crash in which it was considered a prime culprit.
The culprit is indoor air, which is filled with dust mites, cigarette smoke, cockroach remains, and pet dander.