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Harvard experts on cultural studies say women cluster in either established feminine areas of study or new disciplines which are theirs for the taking...
...inconspicuous two-lane road near the city of Beaverton, Ore., a cluster of modest concrete-and-glass buildings nestles amid ponds, fields and magnificent groves of evergreens--an oasis of natural beauty standing firm against the encroaching suburbs. Only a pair of football-field-size enclosures surrounded by 9-ft.-high sheet-metal walls and monitored from a watchtower give the hint that this is something more than just an unusually idyllic office park. The huge pens suggest a dinosaur paddock from Jurassic Park--an image reinforced when whatever is inside inexplicably starts slamming violently against the metal walls...
...There is no information that there is an extraordinary incidence of cancer [at the Fogg]," he said. "The numbers don't jump out and say there's a cancer cluster here...
Sperber's problem is that he can't keep his mouth shut. He sees corruption and hypocrisy in big-time college sports, and he writes books that land like cluster bombs, sparing no one. He sees universities spending gazillions on new stadiums and practice facilities while stiffing undergraduate education, and he papers academia's ivory towers with the evidence. It's been a virtuous crusade, but Sperber made one blasphemous mistake along the way. In May he called for I.U. to fire radioactive, chair-tossing basketball coach Bobby Knight...
...surprising results spurred me to widen the sample last week with calls to 10 other Wall Street types. Their range of answers ran along the same lines as that of my paddle-tennis pals. The quickest predicted recovery was 12 months; the most drawn out, seven years. The biggest cluster by far was around a five-year recovery, which is the eye opener...