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...infamous remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science. “The question we must ask as a society is not ‘can women excel in math, science, and engineering?’—Marie Curie exploded that myth a century ago—but ‘how can we encourage more women with exceptional abilities to pursue careers in these fields?’” Hennesy, Hockfield, and Tilghman wrote in February. Yesterday’s brief statement did not touch on the innate abilities...
...Sept. 5, 1972, there is considerable clarity. The story of the reprisal missions, on the other hand, has been befogged by mystery. The notion persists that the Israelis drew up a list of those responsible for Munich, then, one by one, knocked them off. But that's largely a myth, according to an upcoming book by TIME reporter Aaron J. Klein, Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response (Random House; 272 pages). The Israelis, Klein writes, had to settle for smaller targets, killing activists who for the most part had nothing to do with...
...students to distinguish between what they refer to as “science and psuedoscience.” John W. Hoopes, an associate professor of anthropology at Kansas who received a doctorate from Harvard in 1987, will teach a course next fall entitled Anthropology 210, “Archaeological Myths and Realities and Religion.” Chair of the Department of Religious Studies Paul Mirecki, who received a doctorate from Harvard Divinity School in 1986, had tentatively titled his spring course Religion 602, “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and Other Religious Mythologies...
...long can an upmarket myth linger before tatty reality rubs it out? The legend of old Broadway-when stories of poor boys winning the hearts of rich girls served as metaphors for the irresistibility of American ambition, and debonair stars introduced songs that instantly found a spot in the everyone's internal juke box-is a good half-century out of date. No #1 Billboard hit has come from a Broadway musical since Judy Collins' "Send in the Clowns" from the Steven Sondheim A Little Night Music in 1973. No Broadway musical has put a bunch of its tunes...
What distinguishes reality from myth is that Bhargava, 32, wasn't playing poker. He is the marketing director of PartyGaming, a company based in Gibraltar that operates the world's largest online poker site, PartyPoker.com Bhargava joined the firm in 2000 when it was an Internet start-up based in the Dominican Republic that was trying to establish a niche in the then novel world of online gaming. Today PartyPoker boasts that more than a million people have played for money on its site this year, the vast majority of them Americans, who are technically circumventing the law, according...