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...reform homeland security spending, Chertoff will have to take on powerful rural Senators who've grown accustomed to seemingly disproportionate slices of the pie. Today, 40% of the department's $40 billion budget is dispersed in equal share to the 50 states and the rest goes to states more or less on the basis of population. As a result, the federal government spends $28.22 annually on a resident of Wyoming and $15.72 on a citizen of New York. Instead, Chertoff wants to employ risk analysis-like the kind used in a DHS draft report inadvertantly placed on a Hawaii state...
...said that even if gender-based cognitive differences exist, the genders are of “equal aptitude...
...also publicly expressed anguish about a continuation of the U.S.'s Iraq policy. Ali Ashraf Khan Karachi You said Europe is looking for signs that the U.S. is ready to accept it as a full partner. But it's not a question of the U.S. accepting Europe as an equal. Rather it's a question of the Bush Administration's admitting that in order to invade Iraq and scare people into re-electing Bush, it systematically distorted the truth to dupe the American people into thinking Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. John Cronin Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
...academia about women's aptitude in those fields. As suggested in your article, the educational system--not biology--is to blame for any discrepancy between the achievements of men and those of women. Given the right training and encouragement at an early age, women can, without a doubt, equal men in math, science and engineering--just as they have in other fields...
...you’re twenty-five times more likely to encounter a wealthy student than a poor student at an Ivy League or Ivy-imitating college.” The figure should have a chilling effect on any reader who still thinks meritocracy allows all walks of life an equal shot at success. The average household income of a Harvard student soars into the six-digit range. We’re as representative of the national mosaic as Congress...