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...list, according to The Politico, a Capital Hill newspaper.This round of Summers backlash has focused on his comments at a 2005 conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in which he suggested that “intrinsic” physiological differences between men and women may in part account for the relative lack of women in top science and engineering jobs.But in fact, Summers’ most incendiary battles with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were over what they saw as his abrasive leadership style, his firing of then-FAS dean William C. Kirby...
There has been an overall decrease of about 35 to 40 percent in cardiovascular fatalities in Massachusetts since 1999. Taking into account factors such as flu outbreaks, air pollution, and seasonal differentiation in health, scientists found that a reduction in secondhand smoke was the single greatest factor in the drop in deaths from heart disease...
...feeling they have been enriched with new perspectives on their heritage and culture.” The summit began with a keynote speech by Rufus Phillips, a recipient of the CIA’s Intelligence Medal of Merit and author of “Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned in Vietnam.” Phillips, although an American citizen, spent 14 years living in Vietnam, part of it during his tenure in the CIA. Phillips said that many mistakes that the U.S. made in Vietnam War are being repeated in the two wars in Iraq...
...national media gets no pardon either. "Reporters facilitate the greedy and grubby process whereby too many elections go to the highest bidder and his sharpie hirelings," he writes. He remains sore about the degree to which a candidate's credibility is judged by his or her bank account and notes that during the debates, he was often asked about religion while the other candidates dealt with questions of government policy. Why, he asks, was a "floating cross" in the window of one of his ads such a media controversy when reporters gave a pass to a Barack Obama direct-mail...
Well, mystery abounds. What's next for the group? Was the point really just to give New Yorkers a chuckle or trick them into thinking for few fleeting minutes that U.S. involvement in Iraq had ended? By midday, the groups posted a video account of the prank, with interviews with readers around New York City. Some reports said the fake-out was nationwide, but the video was shot all in New York, and accounts of the stunt seemed limited to the actual home of the Times. And how does the New York Times feel about being parodied and satirized...