Word: measuredness
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Six prominent women astronomers discussed the obstacles they faced along their career path and how they overcame them in a panel sponsored yesterday by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Superiors often discouraged these women from careers in science, according to the panel members. Sidney C. Wolff, the first female...
If Washington's interest in bolstering the alliance is plain, so is Tokyo's. Koizumi has made a strategic decision to yoke his nation ever more tightly to the U.S. as a buffer to the seemingly inexorable rise of China, measured not least by the rapid modernization of its armed...
Mauger is 32 years old. He works 32 hours per week as a grill cook for Quincy House. His hair is black and slick; his voice is low and measured. He’s not like Paul Simon at all. If anything, he evokes a young Marlon Brando�...
Ongoing studies of identical twins have measured achievement motivation--lab language for ambition--in identical siblings separated at birth, and found that each twin's profile overlaps 30% to 50% of the other's. In genetic terms, that's an awful lot--"a benchmark for heritability," says geneticist Dean Hamer...
THE BAD NEWS --Drinking three cups of coffee a day during pregnancy more than doubled the risk of miscarriage in a study of 331 Canadian women. Although another recent study suggested that consuming moderate amounts of coffee had no effect, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advises expectant mothers to...