Word: excellance
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...Riain continued to excel at the top of the ladder, defeating No. 47 Helga Vieira in two straight. Alexis Martire gave Harvard a 3-1 lead in a come-from-behind three...
...Harvard could help support a program for each subject area so that, for example, math concentrators could have the opportunity to try teaching math once a week if they wished.” In supporting this sort of training, Harvardians could tailor their teaching to whatever they happen to excel (or be interested) in. The university also needs to build more bridges with local public schools. As a major player in Cambridge politics and in the community, Harvard should increase its support for the surrounding schools both financially and administratively. It would increase not only our standing in the community...
...idle. From then on, you simply click on an icon or a toolbar to use it. Google Desktop Search (available at desktop.google .com) works inside your Web browser: type keywords into the search field, just as you would to search the Internet. Although Google's program scours Word and Excel documents, Outlook messages and more, to find matches for your queries, it recognizes audio and video only by file name. Microsoft's desktop-search program, on the other hand - part of a new MSN Toolbar Suite (beta.toolbar.msn.com) - examines the metadata embedded in multimedia files as well. The MSN program also...
...record straight: He did not claim that women are inherently inferior to men in math and science skills as popular perception seems to have it. At a conference on women and minorities in science and engineering, Summers listed some possible explanations for why only a small number of women excel at elite levels of scientific study, and one of the theories he cited states that women have an innate disadvantage in math and science aptitude. As far as we can tell, he was not espousing his own beliefs, but merely listing this as one possibility...
...example, quantitative and spatial skills vary within a gender according to levels of sex hormones. And in samples of gifted students who are given every conceivable encouragement to excel in science and math, far more men than women expressed an interest in pursuing science and math...