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...glamour of Egypt, the mummies, the pyramids and the shifting sands ensnared Mertz, 75, when she was 13. Unlike most dreamy adolescents, she went on to earn a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago by the time she was 23. That was in 1950, when the possibility of a woman's becoming a working archaeologist seemed remote. "We took it for granted that women couldn't do some things," she says...
...order to earn the title, the Black and White varsity not only needed to finish first, but needed the Huskies to finish at least two places behind...
...that killed 56,000 Americans and 60 times as many Vietnamese. It's a must-see, especially for Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. The shroud of international evildoing covers two excellent films set in Afghanistan. Sedigh Barmak's Osama takes place in the early days of Taliban rule: to earn money for her family, a desperate woman disguises her 11-year-old daughter as a boy. It is a reckless ruse, one with humiliating consequences, which Barmak directs with poignant simplicity. Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five in the Afternoon is set just after the Taliban's fall, when young women...
...relatively well equipped to cope with stingy employers--particularly in an era of 0% auto financing and mortgage rates that last week dropped yet again to historic lows. Dramatically declining energy prices since the Iraq war ended are another welcome buffer, allowing consumers to keep more of what they earn...
...also such highly paid tasks as software development and financial research. Financial-services companies in the U.S. say they expect to transfer 500,000 jobs, or 8% of industry employment, to foreign countries over the next five years, according to management consultants A.T. Kearney. Why? A call-center employee earns $20,000 a year in the U.S. but only $2,500 in India. And overseas cable costs have fallen as much as 80% since 1999. At the higher end, a researcher with a few years of experience might earn $250,000 on Wall Street, compared with $20,000 in India...