Word: affectedness
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As a woman who dreams of becoming a professor of mathematics, I feel personally affected by society’s perceptions of women in science. While I believe that my work as a mathematician will speak for itself, I also suspect that my path to secure employment may be more...
Person of the Year I appreciate your choice of president Bush as Person of the Year for 2004 [Dec. 27-Jan. 3]. I would add the following reason to those you stated: his farsighted vision. Since 9/11, Bush has been the only world leader with a clear plan for how...
Somehow the Holmans' family home still stands, though burned patches a few meters away show how close the fire came. But the 1,100-hectare farm is "burned from end to end," 500 of their sheep are dead, and the local township of Wanilla "looks like a scene from the...
The adolescent need for identity sometimes expresses itself in persecution of those who stand out. Consider the case of Kathi Hürter, 14, a top student at Bonn's Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium. About two years ago, Hürter says, many of her schoolmates started looking askance at...
At first I was appalled by your choice for Person of the Year [Dec. 27--Jan. 3]. But then I remembered your criterion: the person who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill. I can't think of anyone in my lifetime who has affected...