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That skewed view - and not some lack of aptitude - may be what keeps girls from pursuing math and science as a career. But Hyde notes that more and more girls are continuing to study math through high school and college, which points to the fact that female students are increasingly aware of the careers that are open to them. These students are making forward-looking decisions about what courses to take in high school, Hyde says, based in part on what they want to do next. The next step, she says, is attracting more women to the graduate and career...
...artistic journey of Indonesia's great painter, Sindoutomo Sudjojono (1913-1986), was as complex as his favorite subject - Indonesia's independence and development. During his early career, Sudjojono eschewed the prevailing style of painting because its naturalistic, European conventions smacked to him of colonialism. Instead, he took up socialist realism, and put his brush at the service of the country's communist party. By the 1960s, he had switched from propaganda to Pop Art. Toward the end of his life - disenchanted by Suharto's right-wing regime and shunned by leftist artists who felt he had betrayed them - Sudjojono turned...
...player who suffered a career-ending injury, do you have ideas as to how to better protect players? -Raymond Gambel, New Orleans
...even proponents of accelerated programs note that there are drawbacks. With only one summer to work, students don't have a lot of time to experiment or figure out the kind of legal career they want to pursue. And those who fall behind in classes don't have much time to catch up. "This is not for everybody," says Lisa Kloppenberg, dean of the University of Dayton School of Law, who has overseen the school's two-year program. "It's very intense...
...first family member to break the code: Teddy Horne divorced his wife, who later became an actress. He was also a major-league gambler with underworld connections. One of them paid off: Dutch Schultz's mob guaranteed ''protection'' for Teddy's daughter when at 16 she began her career as a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club. Yet Lena, though she followed in her parents' wayward footsteps, remained very much the proper granddaughter, combining ''ante-bellum manners and New England values.'' In later years she would go through a divorce and marry a white man, the orchestra leader and arranger...