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Scientists are not sure what causes MND, but it is likely to be a combination of the genes - or biological traits - you get from your parents when you are born, and other lifestyle factors.

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History was made, and the Free Speech Movement born through the most American of traits — courage, passion and the invincibility of youth.

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It is a spectrum, meaning it includes a wide range of traits or characteristics which vary from person to person.

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But by the 1980s, much chimp behavior was being interpreted in ways that would have been labeled anthropomorphism — ascribing human traits to non-human entities — decades earlier.

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The districts must also follow the federal Voting Rights Act and group together “communities of interest,” a wide-reaching term of art for people who share languages, cultures, backgrounds, interests, ways of life or other traits.

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