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Alaska elected Republican Sarah Palin its first female Governor. Democrat Carol Shea-Porter will become the first woman to represent New Hampshire in the House. The new Congress will be 16% female--an all-time high. And the House is expected to have its first female Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who said, "Maybe it takes a woman to clean House...
...focus on how and when things like this come on line.” Olson’s study, co-authored by Berkman professor of psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71, Cabot professor of social ethics in psychology Mahzarin Banaji, and Stanford professor of psychology Carol S. Dweck, was conducted in two parts. The first part presented the study subjects with descriptions of individuals and asked them to rate their affinity for them on a 1-6 scale. The average rating for “beneficiaries of uncontrollable good events” was a 4.8, while the average...
...written so many books that she has lost track of the exact number. (It's more than 100.) Her breadth as a writer is legendary-novels, short stories, poetry, reviews, nonfiction. This month Joyce Carol Oates adds a provocative new novel to her lengthy r?sum?: Black Girl/White Girl, the story of two college roommates-and one's mysterious death. Oates, 68, talked with TIME's Andrea Sachs about race relations, writer's block and the joys of running...
...kind of May afternoon that makes you glad to be alive. Carol Siebert, 58, spent it sailing down a Hemet, Calif., highway in a red convertible, the wind lightly ruffling the hair in her blond wig. Beside her, in the driver's seat, was the car's owner, Sonia Mir, a woman Siebert had never met until that...
...Brigham Young University study found that standardized test scores for fourth- and fifth-graders rose from 10% to 15% in every subject at a Utah public school the year after amplification began, though no other changes were made. Proponents like University of Akron audiologist Carol Flexer says the technology's greatest bang for the buck may come during early childhood when reading skills and phonics are introduced. "Without the even distribution of sound in the room from these systems, it can be hard for children to hear the difference between watch or wash or wasp," says Flexer. Her small...