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Beyond focusing on the particulars of his career path, Gill stressed the importance of finding a mentor on the road to becoming a doctor...
...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 director of a prominent U.S. observatory, was once told that aggressiveness, a necessity for being successful in the sciences, was unattractive in women. When future NASA researcher Nancy Grace Roman asked a high school teacher if she could take an additional year of mathematics, the reaction was, “What...
...request Harvard to reroute the trucks. Because Memorial Drive—which usually forbids construction traffic—is part of the state-managed Charles River Reservation, the University appealed to the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to allow its trucks to travel along a 1,800-yard path before turning onto Cowperthwaite. But the Commonwealth ultimately denied that request. City Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio said he had expected that Harvard’s political clout would have prevailed on the DCR to obtain an exception. “The real disappointment was an assumption that...Harvard?...
...Back home, there was much talk about how the trip to the Middle Kingdom would divert attention from the U.S. leader's political woes, as his popularity polls sunk to record lows. But in China, he reveled in a red-carpet welcome and greeted screaming schoolchildren who lined his path just to catch a glimpse of their hero. No, this wasn't President George W. Bush-who will arrive in China for a state visit on Saturday-it was California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, better known in China...
...woman or couple face a fateful choice: to terminate a pregnancy that has already reached the second trimester, or prepare to raise a child with Down, which causes mild-to-moderate retardation and often other health problems as well. Doctors estimate that 80% to 90% choose the first path...