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...clear imbalance between the number of prizes available solely to women and men. The Frothingham is just one example of a prize open only to men; in addition, there are a number of departmental awards and University-wide prizes exclusively given to male undergraduates, including the Shaw Fellowship, the Barbara Miller Solomon Prize, the William J. Bingham Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Korean War Memorial Prize and the John P. Reardon Prize. Some male-only prizes have a female equivalent; others do not. This imbalance must be addressed...
...BARBARA WARD...
...books, articles and lectures, Britain's Barbara Ward did more than anyone else in her day to focus attention on the Third World--and the fact that its poverty threatened the entire natural world. "I read it like I do the Bible," said President Lyndon Johnson of her 1962 study, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations. A Roman Catholic, she cheered the church's fight against inequity. Her plea for ecological sanity, Only One Earth, helped shape the U.N. environment conference in Stockholm in 1972. Co-author Rene Dubos praised her as an "economist who can talk to people...
...more specific challenges to Mosaic's pedigree. The U.S. Marshals Service and the L.A. police department may swear by the earlier versions of Mosaic, but many psychologists insist it has not been through a proper scholarly review. Mike Furlong, a psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, recently test-drove the Mosaic-2000 program and concluded, "This is just a private firm asking America's schools to create an open experiment." De Becker says his method is scheduled to undergo two academic evaluations...
...articles on page 29, "Democrats Play the Race Card While Calling People 'Cripple' and 'Fatso,'" and page 30, "Cabinet Secretaries Moonlight as Gore Flacks." And the cover story: a Gore Supreme Court lineup that's made up of Hillary and Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Naomi Wolf, Al Sharpton, Barbara Streisand, James Carville, Rosie O'Donnell and Larry Flynt...