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Nonetheless, she concludes that focusing on making engineering jobs more family-friendly - by offering flexible work schedules, say - misses an important part of the mark. If we desire to keep women working as engineers, whether for their sakes or society's (since engineers tend to be useful to the U.S. economy), then a better focus may be creating work environments where women feel more able to climb the career ladder...
...Grant, though, is convinced there's a connection. The question now, she says, is whether seismologists can do anything with her research to try to predict the next big one. "A lot of people are asking, 'Can we use them as a kind of monitoring tool, keep one at home and watch to see if they run away?' " says Grant. "That's obviously not going to work." But she's hoping something might...
This is where we are, almost. Nor is Greece the only culprit. It is all the PIIGS: Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain. All of them have been shoveling too much coal. To keep their folks warm, they spread euros around like there is no tomorrow, especially to their powerful public-employees unions. By the same token, they have been loath to raise taxes, let alone take on entrenched interests. The fallout is right out of the introductory economics textbook. (Read: "Bailout Showdown: Greece and Germany Raise the Stakes...
...village, a 90-minute drive southwest of Detroit. "It was weird, like in a movie," recalls Dale Robinson, 59, a displaced autoworker and one of Clayton's 300 or so inhabitants. During the previous week, there had been a rumor - no one knew who started it - that residents should keep their doors and windows locked. Some residents figured an inmate might have escaped from the nearby state prison. It turns out all the commotion was over a group whose alleged leader lived in a double-wide trailer that sits down the gravel road from the local wiring plant where...
Allawi may be stoking resentment by blaming any move to keep him out of power on meddling by Tehran. "Iran is interfering quite heavily, and this is worrying," he told the BBC on Tuesday, noting that the Iranian leadership had invited the other major factions but not his own for talks in Tehran over the shape of the next Iraqi government...