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...based World Economic Forum releases an annual list that ranks countries on the basis of gender equality. The report measures the discrepancies between men and women in four categories: 1) educational attainment, 2) economic participation and opportunity, 3) political empowerment and 4) health and survival. The U.S. slipped from 22nd place in 2006 to 31st place this year, partly because of its low political-participation rate for women. Countries of note...
...fourth, and fifth spots on the way to scoring just 37 points. Providence finished second, paced by individual winner Max Smith, who finished in 29:58.75 and was the only runner to crack the 30-minute mark.On the women’s side, Richardson led the team by finishing 22nd in 21:25.45, the second-fastest time by a freshman in the race. Classmate Jamie Olson finished 35th in 21:44.15, and fellow rookie Eliza Ives clocked in at 22:01.00, 51st overall. “We really worked together well in the first mile,” Olson said...
...year-old father of two who was just beginning his third tour with the Polish force in Southern Iraq, was killed by a powerful roadside bomb Friday morning near a joint Iraqi-Polish outpost in this tumultuous city deep in Iraq's Shi'ite heartland. He was the 22nd Polish soldier to die in Iraq since the autumn of 2003, when Poland first sent troops into the country. He was the first Pole killed in action in more than six months and his death comes at a delicate time for a newly elected Polish government, which is under intense domestic...
...Sometime in the 22nd century (if we get there as a species), schoolchildren in a new dark age will read about all the sirens going off at the same time - "ice melting, species vanishing and cities choking the people who live in them" - and no one in power ever giving these life-or-death matters the full, single-minded attention they so desperately deserved. Carlos A. Leo Hollywood...
Sometime in the 22nd century (if we get there as a species), schoolchildren in a new dark age will read about all the sirens going off at the same time--"ice melting, species vanishing and cities choking the people who live in them"--and no one in power giving these life-or-death matters the full attention they deserved...