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...investment advice with names like Adventure Capitalism and Investment Biker. In 2007 he moved to Singapore to get a front-row seat at Asia's economic boom and also saw the launch of tradeable securities tied to a commodities index he created. His newest book, A Gift to My Children, is a compendium of advice - financial and otherwise - to his two young daughters. Rogers spoke to TIME about the book, why the Obama Administration can't fix the economy and why he still thinks commodities are the best investment for the future. (Recession Shopping: See TIME's list...
...behind in the languages - often considered academia's female-friendly fields - suggests that the fight to get more women established in male-dominated math and science might be even more of an uphill battle than we expected. According to the new study, whether women were single, married, divorced, with children or without, they lagged behind their male counterparts in every demographic. Married women took an average of 8.8 years to become full professors, compared to 6.8 for married men. And among single or divorced faculty, promotions took 7.7 years for women...
...Interestingly, among respondents with kids, women reported spending more time (31.6 hours) caring for their children than did men (17.4), but that didn't make those women rise slower than their childless peers - just the opposite. Married moms moved up in 8.2 years, compared to 9.4 for married women without kids. "Women become highly focused when they have so many different things to do," says Woodward. "When I was an associate professor and had just had a baby, I knew when I had four hours to work on a project, I was really going to work on that project." (This...
...City, the Catholic Church has cancelled some masses. But in Acapulco, the services went on during their normal hours. It was at Mass in Acapulco, however, that I saw the first people wearing masks. At the Cathedral downtown, the church was full. But some worshippers, mostly old people and children, wore surgical masks. The priest said that communion would not be placed on the mouth but on the hands of each parishioner; he also asked them not to give peace to one another by kissing or shaking hands, advising that they simply turn right and left to acknowledge fellow parishioners...
Leaving the church I stopped a family of six, all wearing masks and asked them why they took the precautions. Justino, 46, a chemical engineer, said, "Being far away from Mexico, does not mean this cannot affect us. I am worried for my four children. All are under 14 and classes have not been suspended here. I think prevention is most important, the authorities have the responsibility to let us know what is going on. I think classes should be suspended. My children will not be going to school this Monday, until I know it is safe." His wife Monica...