Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told, African Americans constitute only 7.2% of the nation's computer scientists; Hispanics, only 3.6%. Part of the reason, as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates can tell you, is that there are too few minorities with the education to fill those jobs. Gates and his wife Melinda addressed that problem last week, when they announced that their foundation will make the largest academic donation ever: $1 billion, which will be distributed over the next 20 years to pay the full tab each year for about 1,000 black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian students seeking degrees in engineering, mathematics, science...
Otus has another problem. The women she does hire--and they are mostly women--tend to be well dressed and attractive. And sometimes that leads to romance with wealthy male clients. "If you've got executives and attractive single women, they're going to get together," she says. "Steve Ballmer of Microsoft married his p.r. person, and Ken Jacobs at Oracle married the head of p.r. for his company." It's another beautiful virtuous cycle...
...relationship without having to say yes to sex, as well as dealing with peer pressure, drugs and alcohol. Such conflicting pressures come from not only boyfriends and girlfriends but also movies, television and advertising. According to the AAUW, educators and parents need to address this problem seriously...
MAKE NICE School violence is a concern of all parents, yet a major study released last week by the National Center for Children in Poverty confirms that there might be a possible solution to at least part of the problem. Students in Grades 2 through 6 who took part in a violence-resolution program--and learned to solve disagreements with words instead of fists--ended up being less hostile. This channeling of anger had one additional benefit. Those who took the classes often did better academically than those...
...tried to keep each other's confidence up: "Don't worry...we're going to make it...there's no problem." But we were all saying our little prayers. The water wasn't that cold for the first three hours, but then we started losing our body heat...