Word: learnedness
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So far, studies about girls' and boys' achievements in same-sex grammar schools are inconclusive. But if it turns out that targeting sex differences through education is helpful, there are certainly many ways to carry it out. Says Giedd: "The ability for change is phenomenal. That's what the brain...
How is your restaurant [Teany, in New York City] doing? It's actually worked out really well. What we've learned is that whenever I suggest something, it ends up being disastrous. Like this fantastic Middle Eastern plate that I designed--one of our first customers, Susan Sarandon, loved it...
In another instance, I had problems on a job for CalEnergy, an energy company. The vice president of construction was an older gentleman who hadn't encountered a lot of women in his profession. It was 1999. I was the principal, the project manager was a woman and their lawyer...
Rips isn't horrified by any of this. Instead he manages, by dint of a gift for calm reflection, to accept and ultimately be made wiser by it. His writing is bluff and simple but often quite funny and sophisticated. He takes gently learned excursions through the work of the...
Jessica Grace Wing had always been ambitious. A graduate student in film, she had already co-founded a small New York City theater company when she learned, on the eve of her 30th birthday in July 2001, that she had terminal colon cancer. Knowing she would never complete a full...