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Students at élite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20, is a senior majoring in chemistry at Princeton, but when recruiters from consulting firms and investment banks showed up on campus last fall, she went on several interviews, and she will take a job as a consultant after graduation. She says, "They love the fact that science majors can think analytically, that we're comfortable with numbers." Increasingly, science majors love those companies back. Gao says, "There are no guarantees if you go into science, especially as a woman. You have to worry about getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Losing Our Edge? | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...continue to find an alternate plan. But it certainly won’t be Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, or “morning-after pill,” that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed unfit for over-the-counter distribution last May. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan investigative subsidiary group of Congress, reported recently that top FDA officials decided to reject the application of Plan B months before the government scientific review of the application was complete. The FDA is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency, and its role is to gauge the safety...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Contraception Emergency | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

Before climbing back onto the bus, Wanjun Gao recollected the infamous three lies of the John Harvard statue for FM. “The statue is wrong. The time is wrong. The founder is wrong,” he said, correctly. Then, tipping his cap, Gao disappeared into the bus, satisfied...

Author: By Silas P. Howland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 6: The Ritz Tour Bus: Three Times a Week, They Come Here to See You. | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

After a two-year investigation, the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last month asking the GAO to further investigate Klausner’s role in the awarding of the grant. The confidential letter was posted on the website of the Cancer Letter earlier this month...

Author: By Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Official To Step Down | 9/20/2005 | See Source »

...disclosure came as the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, announced the findings of a study conducted on the IRS. The GAO report said that at some IRS processing centers, refund checks were mutilated and tax forms were left on loading docks. The GAO also said that kinks in the new IRS computer system and inadequate staffing had made matters worse. IRS Spokesman A. Ernest Acosta said the agency was "taking corrective action." Ideally, the difficulties will be resolved soon. Tax-filing season for 1985 is bearing down. AGRICULTURE Catfish Are Jumpin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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