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...female students at the Business School, Bell adds, the low proportion of women on the faculty may negatively affect academic performance, though he says it is unclear whether female senior faculty are better mentors than males to female junior faculty and students...
...You’d think that the Business School would have better success in attracting and keeping women,” one of the women says. “The administration is not malicious—they just haven’t figured out how to do that...
Broward County sheriff Al Lamberti says he isn't sure why his jurisdiction has become the hotbed. "There's no reasonable explanation," he says. "It seems like it's just happened. I don't know why. Maybe we have better beaches, I don't know." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Beach County commissioners just passed a moratorium to keep new clinics from opening while officials try to hammer out a solution. Other local governments are passing similar moratoriums. A commissioner in one city, Delray Beach, wants to require patients to be fingerprinted when they pick up their pills, for better monitoring. (See how to prevent illness...
...What could turn a self-confessed social-networking addict so virulently against Facebook? Last month, the website announced a planned test to start sharing users' personal details with handpicked third-party websites to help those sites better personalize their services to people. Aigner complains that Facebook users won't necessarily be notified when this happens and the onus will be on them to use the opt-out function to stop their personal details from being passed on. And that, she says, leaves many people, especially youngsters, in a vulnerable position, since they may not be aware that their personal data...