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...earlier version of the Jan. 25 news article "Citizens Debate Climate Plans" called E. Denise Simmons the mayor of Cambridge. In fact, Simmons is no longer the city's mayor. She is a Cambridge city council member...
...fact, the Dutchwomen’s best scoring chance of the night came with Harvard on the power play. Though Union’s Lauren Hoffman was whistled for bodychecking, an icing call on the Crimson set up a faceoff in its defensive zone...
...Lawrence H. Summers, then president of Harvard University, gave an infamous speech in which he implied that the reason few women seem to excel in mathematics is genetic. Perhaps he would cite as evidence the “indisputable” fact that girls play with dolls and not chemistry sets. After all, as we write, little girls are still playing with fresh new dolls from Santa and boys are blowing up their bedrooms and the family...
...fact, two studies published in 1990 and 1995 found “a slight female advantage in computation in elementary and middle school,” and, according to the 2009 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, “Girls have now reached parity with boys in mathematics performance...
...think we were really pleasantly surprised by the fact that we were able to win all of our races,” co-captain Alexandra Clarke said. “We put in a lineup where people weren’t swimming their best events...