Word: 12th
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...play a role in learning and memory throughout life. Subtle differences between the male and female brain can be traced to the influences of estrogen and testosterone in the womb. (While all fetuses are exposed to their mother's estrogen, male fetuses produce testosterone in their testes by the 12th week of gestation.) Particularly affected is the hypothalamus, a walnut-size structure located near the top of the brainstem that governs sexual development and sexual behavior and regulates temperature and water balance. Many scientists believe that such gender differences as the male facility with math, the female facility with language...
...Martins tore up the college hockey world, tallying 60 points (12th best in Harvard history), making the NCAA Final Four and ending the year as a first team All-American...
...Crimson harriers placed eighth in the nine team field. Carswell, who finished the 8000-meter run in 25:13, buoyed the squad with a strong-fifth place performance. Walsh was close behind Carswell, finishing 12th (25:55), but no other Crimson runners were seen until junior Crimson editor Darin Shearer crossed the finish line in 45th place...
...roughly 450 students in the school, which runs from pre-kindergarten to the 12th grade, roughly a third are Ethiopian, Robert F. Ehrenheim, a history teacher at the school said in a telephone interview...
...effort to promote cooperation among different Christian faiths,Pope John Paul IItoday acknowledged past mistakes in theChurch's dealings with other Christiansand encouraged dialogue about the way the papacy exercises its supremacy. The message comes in the Pope's 12th encyclical, which is addressed not just to Catholics but to all Christians.TIME'S John Elsonsays the declaration is "much like the Pope's personality. It combines a level of humility on one hand with an uncompromising authoritarianism on the other. This assertion of his primacy is not going to make the Protestants very happy. But what the Pope would really...