Word: factors
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...biggest factor in the sharp rise of prostate-cancer diagnoses is the increasingly widespread use of the controversial PSA test, which in many cases can detect the disease early in its course, long before the tumor becomes palpable. By making early detection and treatment possible, the test could eventually reduce the number of prostate-cancer deaths. Paradoxically, it could also lead to a rise in premature or even unnecessary treatments...
Those facts seem to point to an environmental factor, probably the change to a Western diet. In a test of that conjecture, researchers at Sloan-Kettering, led by Dr. William Fair and pharmacologist Warren Heston, discovered that tumors grew more rapidly in mice fed a high-fat diet than in those on a low-fat diet. And when the animals on high-fat diets were switched to low-fat ones, the growth of their tumors slowed...
...different admission standards for minority students than it does for white applicants. The court's decision was a frontal assault on the current law of the land--embodied in the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision--which prohibits quotas but allows schools to consider race as a factor in college applications...
...British stance has other European countries infuriated. The British government had always contended that there was no link between beef consumption and CJD. British scientists now maintain that while humans cannot contract the bovine disease, the consumption of beef from cattle bearing the disease may be a factor in developing the human brain sickness. The spread of mad cow disease is thought to have stemmed from a traditional British farming practice of including portions of dead sheep in cattle feed; a brain disease in sheep may thus have spread to the cattle herds, and is now triggering the human brain...
Proctor said temperament may be the most important factor in dealing with Harvard's management structure...