Word: factor
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...girl. Last week the ancient mystery appeared to have been unlocked. A nine-member team led by a geneticist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., announced that an infant's sex seems to be fixed by a single gene called testis determining factor, or TDF. The discovery, declared Whitehead's director, Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, was the result of a "landmark set of experiments...
...professors at the University of Pennsylvania's English Department are charging that unfair treatment was a factor in their tenure rejections this month, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian...
...Another factor that weighed against Henshaw's conviction was that the only evidence that he had committed an "abominable and detestable crime against nature" in illegal sexual acts turned out to be the women's testimony that they had performed "oral...
Another significant factor contributing to the blowout was the absence of Harvard's experienced right wing starter, Christine Burns...
Leadership and disability should not be mutually exclusive, said John Chappell, deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission. "Disability should not be a limiting factor in our lives," he said...