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...dismay of an older generation of feminists, more and more brides are making the same decision. According to a recent study by Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin, the number of college-educated brides keeping their birth names ("maiden" being a somewhat unrealistic descriptor) has been falling fast. Goldin drew her data from Massachusetts birth records, New York Times wedding announcements and information kept on Harvard alumnae. For example, 10 years after graduation, 44% of married women in the Harvard class of 1980 had kept their birth names. In the class of 1990, it was just 32%. An informal poll taken...
After dinner, those in attendance applauded the senior honorees—Leyla R. Bravo ’05, Martha I. Casillas ’05, Claudia I. García ’05, Priscilla J. Orta ’05, and Omar A. Urquidez...
...Initially, Watkins, Cooper, and Rowley were warned to keep quiet but they kept talking, like generations of female truth-tellers before them. Look at Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus, galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped a town triumph over a multimillion-dollar corporate polluter...
...aren't binding but will probably be embraced by academic and commercial labs across the U.S., making collaboration easier. Foes of the research, who object that embryos are destroyed to create stem-cell lines, called the document a futile effort to bring moral clarity to an immoral field. --By Claudia Wallis...
...Robert Friedman of N.Y.U. Indeed, many newly motivated Americans went scurrying to dermatologists last week, just as Reagan's colon cancer sent them to gastroenterologists. "We had five patients walk in off the streets who identified their own basal-cell carcinomas," says Friedman. "Four of them were right." --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Christine Gorman/New York