Word: factor
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...factor working against the Crimson as it entered the second half was the stiff wind it would face for the final 45 minutes...
With the core of its squad including several freshmen, inexperience seemed a possible explanation for the surprise loss to B.C. Harvard, however, dismissed any ideas that nerves and lack of tournament play was a factor...
Harvard swam the best it has in recent years, finishing first in every event except the last relay, in which it was disqualified. Depth was an important factor, as usual, but it was exceptional individual performances that marked this meet as a watershed competition for the Crimson...
Cost may be only one factor that is behind a growing move among young Americans to seek their college degrees in Canada, England and Ireland, where the education is first rate and, since English is spoken, understandable. Now, with the cost of an Ivy League education well past the $30,000-a-year mark, the sticker prices abroad are more attractive than ever. An American college student in Canada might spend, on average, U.S.$10,000 for tuition and living expenses; in England, $17,000; and in Ireland, around $14,000. In the past several years, between...
...whole? Yes, say Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, two Canadian psychology professors at McMaster University in Ontario. In their slender new book, The Truth About Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Yale University Press), the duo argue that having a stepparent is the most powerful risk factor for severe child abuse. In fact, they say, an American child living with one genetic parent and one stepparent is 100 times as likely to suffer fatal abuse as a child living with two genetic parents. In Daly and Wilson's studies, a stepparent can also be an opposite-sex partner...