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...also was reluctant, especially early in her career, to let colleagues know that she gave birth to her son when she was 17 and unwed. "People are fascinated by this," she says, of her teen pregnancy. "The whole conversation changes overnight. I didn't want it to get in the way of my career. I didn't need that and my son didn't." Later, she became more comfortable sharing this personal detail at work. "It's an important part of who I am and the story I have to tell," she says. "I never saw it as a liability...
...environmentalism. “We’re a unified voice that brings the voices of indigenous governments to the decision-making tables,” Rosenfeld said. Rosenfeld plans to use the $10,000 award to complete and distribute a documentary film chronicling the organization’s birth and growth. He said he hopes the project will encourage other organizations to replicate its model. He also said that he hopes that the award will provide an opportunity “to develop a long-lasting relationship” with Harvard. Rosenfeld said that undergraduates should be excited about...
...born and raised in France. I've been a citizen since birth. How much more French can I be? And there are many more people like me, not just Muslims but blacks, Asians and South Asians. It's time for the French to reject those outdated labels. And it's time for minorities to reject the cult of victimization too. Things aren't perfect. There are a lot of problems. Those problems exploded last week, unleashing the long-held resentment of people who feel unwanted, scorned and swept into the margins like so much trash. To change that...
...humans are an ambitious species, it's clear we're not the only one. Many animals are known to signal their ambitious tendencies almost from birth. Even before wolf pups are weaned, they begin sorting themselves out into alphas and all the others. The alphas are quicker, more curious, greedier for space, milk, Mom--and they stay that way for life. Alpha wolves wander widely, breed annually and may live to a geriatric 10 or 11 years old. Lower-ranking wolves enjoy none of these benefits--staying close to home, breeding rarely and usually dying before they...
Ongoing studies of identical twins have measured achievement motivation--lab language for ambition--in identical siblings separated at birth, and found that each twin's profile overlaps 30% to 50% of the other's. In genetic terms, that's an awful lot--"a benchmark for heritability," says geneticist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute. But that still leaves a great deal that can be determined by experiences in infancy, subsequent upbringing and countless other imponderables...