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...Raised in Castro Valley, Calif., Rachel Anne Maddow took a bachelor's degree in public policy at Stanford, then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where she earned a doctorate in political science. Settling in western Massachusetts, she worked as an activist for prisoners with HIV and AIDS, and as a "yard boy." That's how she met Susan Mikula, an artist who has been her partner for the past eight years. On a dare, Maddow auditioned as an on-air personality for an Amherst radio station and got the job. She served as morning host on Northampton's WRSI...
MEDIAN SALARIES FOR THOSE WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE ONLY...
...girls stopped taking math and never learned the skills required to do well on standardized tests. Today, girls are increasingly sticking with math classes through school - according to the paper, girls and boys take advanced math in high school in equal numbers, and women receive nearly half of all bachelor degrees given in math in the U.S. - and their scores are closing the gap. But "the stereotype that boys are better at math is alive and strong," Hyde says. "Parents still believe it, and teachers still believe...
...both transportation and energy production - jumped 17.7% in March, echoed by a 20.6% leap in food-price inflation. The price of bread has nearly doubled. So has the cost of a haircut and a shave on the streets of Karachi. "What can we do?" says barber Shoaib Ahmed, a bachelor who eats all of his meals at a nearby hostel. "If the hotel raises the cost of a roti [a small, flat bread], there is no way then but to raise the haircut prices...
...Rich is a cautionary tale. Dennis is the first to tell you that you and your loved ones will pay a price for compulsively pursuing the almighty dollar (or the more valuable pound). The author, a lifetime bachelor, confides that his preoccupation with chasing money "led me into a lifestyle of narcotics, high-class whores, drink and consolatory debauchery...