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...preponderance of women professors who have relatively less seniority and work in lower paid disciplines is often considered the cause of this inequality, Bell said. But with women now moving into all the disiplines and increasing in seniority, the discrepancy should narrow...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Harvard Faculty Some of Best Paid in Academia | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...carefully tracking the flow of Chinese M-11 missile components into Pakistan. Then at the end of 1995 came a stunning discovery. Agency satellites spotted a curious-looking facility under construction near the northern Pakistani town of Rawalpindi, just 10 miles from the capital of Islamabad. It had long, narrow buildings with doorways large enough to roll out a rocket the size of the 30-ft. M-11, as well as a test stand nearby, where the solid-fuel engine could be mounted and fired up. The agency concluded that not only was China selling missiles, but it was also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET MISSILE DEAL | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...medication that's prescribed to relieve the uncomfortable symptoms of menopause. It's made from the urine of pregnant mares and involves the pain and torture each year of nearly 100,000 helpless adult horses. For most of their 11 months' pregnancy, they are confined and tethered in narrow stalls on concrete floors while catheterized to devices that collect their urine. They can't move more than a step or two in any direction or lie down. And because Premarin farmers receive more money for concentrated urine, these helpless mares are denied adequate amounts of water and suffer from dehydration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Evil Side of Premarin | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

Adriana E. Abdenur '97 says that the categories in the rating are often too narrow...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: Undergraduate Use of Consumer Course Guides Expands | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...There's less of a sense that the pinnacle in the field is to be able to teach a broad survey course, but to teach the narrow, specialist course, to be on the cutting edge," he says...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Undergraduate Education Becomes More Specialized | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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