Criminologists are still scratching their heads as to why that is but they suspect it may have something to do with the global economy.

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This suggests than it may have something to do with the fact that the sex-determining chromosome is carried by males in mammals and females in birds.

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It may have something to do with the media -- social media, television, the Internet -- providing a boost to the message, a message of human dignity and common sense.

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Apparently the frequency with which consumers are dining out has been on the rise since mid-2009, presumably since contracting during the worst part of the recession and stock market collapse, and the writers at The Fiscal Times think it may have something to do with cost.

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The prosecutor said it was more likely the killing "may have had something to do with a fascination with guns and killing and a desire to see what it was like to shoot someone, something which he had not managed to achieve in Afghanistan".

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It may also, of course, have something to do with the declining readership of his tabloid papers, which are suffering the same fate as most newspapers worldwide: The Sun down from 3.5 million copies sold in 2000 to around 2.8 million copies today, and the News of the World down from more than 4 million in 2000 to 2.6 million just before its closure.

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Strict British libel laws may have had something to do with it.

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This may have something to do with HSBC changing its expansion strategy, but it looks a lot more like the two British banks simply couldn't get their deal through India's sclerotic bureaucracy.

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But MySpace's users still find something appealing about MySpace that they don't about Facebook, and it may have nothing to do with class or race, blogger Perez said.

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