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Over 6,000 professors, students, and researchers from around the country, including at least a dozen from Harvard, presented a letter to Congress last week requesting more initiatives to increase women’s participation in math, science, and engineering...
...moderation, developed in Fleurbaix Laventie, a small town near the Belgian border. There, kids are taught to choose vegetables and fresh foods over fried and processed ones. From age 3, students work with nutritionists to learn food science and cooking, and the lessons are kept up in English and math classes. As a result, childhood obesity in the town has risen just 1% in the past 10 years. "The trick is never to tell the children no," says program director Agnčs Lommez. "Kids can and should eat chips, just not every day." --By Jeninne Lee-St. John. Reported...
...commute - are booming, even as some media observers worry that the growth of free media erodes quality journalism. The math favors the freebies. Take Spain, where only 122 people in 1,000 read a paid-for daily paper - compared to a European average of around 250 - according to Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum. Distributed in nine Spanish cities, 20 Minutos - the local title of Schibsted's giveaway - is aimed at the vast majority of Spaniards who don't pay for a daily paper. "If a reader sees something that really interests him and he wants...
...Galluccio’s proposal is obviously designed so that he would win,” said Robert Winters, a math instructor at the Extension School and editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal...
...record high number of female inductees is unrelated to uproar following recent comments made by University President Lawrence H. Summers about women’s intrinsic abilities in math and science, according to John I. Brauman, a professor of chemistry at Stanford who oversees the election process...