Word: factors
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Your story conveniently omits one critical factor: humans. For decades, it's been painfully apparent that water resources are limited. Nonetheless developers blindly rush to promote growth for growth's sake, with no recognition of human-caused depletion of precious resources. Instead of limiting growth, rationing water, conserving energy and living sustainably, modern society with its insatiable appetite gobbles and wastes resources. Humans have profound effects on the environment, yet too often such negative impacts are simplistically regarded as "acts of God" or "natural causes." JOHN D. LYLE Fairbanks, Alaska...
Development Office officials said that class leadership in soliciting donations is the most important factor for success. David Dearborn '59, a Development Office staff member who works with several classes, including 1941 and 1946, said some classes have a high degree of organization and enthusiasm and are able to pull in high totals year after year...
ROAD The heat will be a major factor. Jeanne Golay of the U.S., Norway's Monika Valvik and defending champion Kathryn Watt of Australia are the top contenders. For the first time, professional cyclists like five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain of Spain are eligible. Lance Armstrong of the U.S., a former world champion, could find the streets of Buckhead, Georgia, to his liking...
...handful of scientists have attempted to study the possibility that praying works through some supernatural factor. One of the most cited examples is a 1988 study by cardiologist Randolph Byrd at San Francisco General Hospital. Byrd took 393 patients in the coronary-care unit and randomly assigned half to be prayed for by born-again Christians. To eliminate the placebo effect, the patients were not told of the experiment. Remarkably, Byrd found that the control group was five times as likely to need antibiotics and three times as likely to develop complications as those who were prayed...
...also pretty obvious that Princeton was weak, which made the Harvard-Bucknell game that morning the lone, deciding factor for which team would survive...