Word: genderism
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...statement, which has also been updated with gender-neutral language, says that faculty members must devote their efforts primarily toward Harvard students and that they may not teach any part of a course at another institution--even via electronic communication...
What's next? To get a fuller racial and gender mix, Venter will go through at least six more human genomes, probably including his own ("Why not, if that's the business I'm in?" he asks, admitting nothing). After the mouse, he'll probably go on to the chimp, among our closest primate kin, and explore plant genes, including rice and corn. He is also taking Celera into the emerging field of proteomics--understanding how genes make and manage proteins, the actual building blocks of life...
...choice and Eastern Republican. She springs from the same Eastern WASP aristocracy that produced Bush. But those facts do not hurt with independents. The chemistry of the Bush-Whitman ticket could be winning. The choice of Whitman for the Bush ticket would have no taint of the condescending gender-pander; an Al Gore-Diane Feinstein ticket, by contrast, would merely seem the crowning insincerity...
DREAMING OF BABY When it comes to predicting the gender of an unborn baby, mothers just might know best. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University interviewed 104 pregnant women who had chosen not to learn their babies' gender through prenatal testing. The mothers-to-be were asked to foretell whether they were carrying a girl or boy and to describe whether their guess was based on folklore, the way they were carrying the baby, a dream or just a feeling. Of the women who based their forecast on a feeling or dream, 71% were correct, and all the women who cited...
...First-Year Student: 1. What you will be in September. 2. Gender-neutral term for "freshman." Synonym: yardling...