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...Bush Administration has not yet offered details of its plan for Social Security, but it's expected to follow the contours of a proposal spelled out by a 2001 commission on Social Security: a combination of scaled-back guaranteed benefits and private investment accounts. This controversial proposal would divert a portion of your payroll taxes to a private account, to invest as you choose. Participation would be voluntary, and there would be a ceiling on how much you could put in. You would not be able to draw on the money until retirement, when it would be paid...
...limit the Party's interference in institutions of government such as the courts, the state-owned media and local legislatures. Such competing power centers, he hoped, would bolster fledgling economic reforms by making government more transparent, while giving the Chinese people the means to hold their leaders to account...
Kosslyn said that there is insufficient evidence to support the conclusion that differences in innate abilities account for female underrepresentation in the sciences. But, Kosslyn stressed, Summers only “suggested that this is one hypothesis that should be considered. By definition, a hypothesis remains to be tested...
...rarely makes sense to talk about genetic versus environmental influences,” wrote Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert in an e-mail. “The ‘nature versus nurture’ debate is over. Nobody won and the game was called on account of pointlessness...
...after apologizing in an open letter to the Harvard community, University President Lawrence H. Summers met last night with female professors and disavowed his earlier suggestion that “innate differences” between the sexes may account for the underrepresentation of women on elite science faculties...