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...Fouz, a former classmate, says, "I remember him telling me that, yes, there is only one God, but the beauty is the fact that people are able to take numerous paths to find him." Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, unfortunately, found trouble, and lots of it, on the path he chose. --Reported by Elaine Shannon and Perry Bacon Jr./Washington and Scott MacLeod/Tangier
...Stanford University's dean of education, Deborah Stipek, and others indicates that by age 12 children have formed hard and fast beliefs about the subjects at which they excel and those in which they fail. Perhaps that's why last year only half as many girls as boys chose to take advanced-placement tests in physics. To even out those numbers, former astronaut Sally Ride launched a science camp two summers ago that so far has kindled the interests of nearly 800 middle school girls...
Walls didn't belong to anyplace growing up. Her father was an itinerant electrician who dreamed of being an inventor; her mother was an occasional schoolteacher who dreamed of being an artist. Both were failures at everything. But they chose to spin their inability to stick to anything as a glorious crusade against bourgeois conformity, and they dragged their kids along for the ride. In her extraordinary book The Glass Castle, Walls describes a childhood spent careering across the country, from California to West Virginia, in a succession of ever more rattletrap cars, in pursuit of increasingly implausible get-rich...
...truly disappointing that WISHR chose Tuesday to squander the valuable role it stood to play in the dialogue about the future of women in science at this University in favor of making suggestions that do little more than reinforce the negative socialized stereotypes Summers’ remarks have been criticized for conjuring. It is truly baffling that, even as criticism is levelled at Summers, the group he was most likely to have alienated seems to agree with him. We are left, therefore, with the age-old question...
HUPD also chose not to perform the fingerprinting that Bass says she requested after the December incident...