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Just last week a new study showed that in science tests teenage boys who scored in the top 5% outnumbered girls 7 to 1, while girls outperformed boys in reading comprehension. In general, men as a group excel at tasks that involve orienting objects in space-like reading a map without having to turn it so it lines up with the road. Women, on the other hand, seem to be more adept at communication, both verbal and nonverbal. Readings of mri scans suggest one reason: women seem to have stronger connections between the two halves (hemispheres) of their brain...
...ovaries removed and thus produce very little estrogen of their own. She found that women who were given injections of estrogen were better at learning and recalling pairs of words than those given a placebo. The effect is intriguingly specific; it involves verbal tasks (at which women tend to excel) but not visual memory...
...prevails, however, IBM will gain a company that is struggling to hold on to its original niche. The Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet was the first blockbuster for PCs but has since been eclipsed by Microsoft's Excel. Lotus fell behind in spreadsheets and other programs, such as word processing and graphics, by being slow to develop software for Microsoft's Windows operating system, which now runs 90% of the world's desktop computers. Although programs like spreadsheets accounted for two-thirds of Lotus revenues of $971 million last year (Notes and other communications software made up the rest), declining...
...were not for Microsoft's operating-system software-programs like MS-DOS, Windows and Windows NT. What is even more impressive (not to mention profitable) is that the company also dominates the market for almost every big-ticket application program, like word processing (Microsoft Word), electronic spreadsheets (Excel), filing (Access), scheduling (Project) and the new all-in-one program "suites" (Office). Microsoft's Flight Simulator is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Microsoft's electronic encyclopedia (Encarta) outsells the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Bonfili said he would like to organize a group of students, perhaps in conjunction with Phillips Brooks House and Harvard Computer Society, to go to the shelters once a week and teach the homeless how to use programs like Microsoft Word and Excel. --Sharon C. Yang