Word: maths
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...their testes by the 12th week of gestation.) Particularly affected is the hypothalamus, a walnut-size structure located near the top of the brainstem that governs sexual development and sexual behavior and regulates temperature and water balance. Many scientists believe that such gender differences as the male facility with math, the female facility with language, girls' slightly superior hearing and skill at interpreting facial expressions are hardwired prenatally through the influence of the sex hormones...
...Miss Universe contest has no math component. Perhaps that's why the beauty pageant became embroiled in an ugly fight that has Miss Washington, STACI BALDWIN, suing to keep her banner and tiara. Baldwin was asked to return them when officials discovered that by next February she will be 27, too old for the Miss USA contest (and way too mature to be Miss Universe). Baldwin, whose birth date on her registration form was apparently overlooked, is taking the matter to a different sort of judging contest: court. "The pageant is an important opportunity for an aspiring actress," says Baldwin...
When Mark Neumann was a math teacher, he'd lecture on the arithmetic of the federal deficit to his high school class in Janesville, Wisconsin. Hauling out charts and graphs, he'd explain the atrociousness of the situation, how the budget crisis had to be solved, and why America had to live within its means. Last week Neumann was again hauling out the math and the charts and the graphics, but this time as a freshman Congressman and real-life budget cutter returning home from a historic budget-busting session of the House of Representatives. How would this play...
Education was particularly important to SadieBragg, who is now dean of academic affairs at theBorough of Manhattan Community College. Even inhis toddler days, the former math professor workedwith her son on number games, though his fatherremembers a lot of Atari as well...
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