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...Poverty is seen as major risk factor for a number of outcomes on adolescents,” Sampson said. “This has led to major policy changes in the United States and a new set of academic studies to try to understand...
...tough conditions they played well defensively,” Walsh said. “Usually the weather can be a factor, but it wasn’t for them. I was impressed by their defense...
David Jeruzalmi, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and member of the selection committee for the prize, commented that although excellence in class must be the main factor, “overall, we look at the whole profile” of a student...
...student also cited a family history of heavy drinking as another factor affecting his decision to drink more moderately...
There is another factor at work here. Yushu sits at what was the edge of the old Chinese empire, and to this day its predominant population is not Han, the ethnic group that rules the new China, but Tibetan. Indeed, the name Yushu, or "Jade Tree," is not what the locals use, beautiful as it is. Yushu is Mandarin, the language of the bureaucrats of Beijing. The town uses Jyekundo, which is Tibetan - the language of the exiled Dalai Lama, a bête noire of the Chinese government. Dominating a large square in Yushu was a spectacular statue...