Word: sakes
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...discrepancies are jarring. One year after graduation, female business majors are earning 81% of what male business majors earn. Among biology majors, women get paid only 75% as much as men. Even in traditionally male-dominated fields, in which women are theoretically sought after for diversity's sake, women still earn less than men. One year after graduation, female engineers make 95% of what male engineering majors do, and women who majored in math earn only 76% of what their male counterparts earn...
...About halfway through, he said: "I believe that the nation needs a revolution in its education system." It's the sort of speech you'd expect from someone in a hurry to get some power-and Rudd, then 41, was. "I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here," he said, and concluded: "It is my intention to make a difference...
...couldn't be more different at Sushi + Soul, www.sushi-soul.de. Here shoeless locals and the expats who make up Düsseldorf's expanding Japanese population - the third largest in Europe - enjoy fresh sashimi and piping-hot udon curled up on tatami mats strewn with feather cushions, while others sip sake at a candlelit bar scattered with driftwood. Per-haps most atmospheric of all these waterside eateries is Lido, www.lido1960.de, a glass cube with 360 degree views at the center of a €5.9 million footbridge spanning the harbor. Inside, Bauhaus furnishings and rust banquettes accommodate diners feasting on trattoria-meets...
...words, Woodbridge is “an international society, not a foreign society.”Balciunas emphasizes the need for the meaningful social interaction that he believes the Society’s events encourage. “We don’t throw a party for the sake of having a party,” he says. “We throw a party to bring people together.”The result appears to be a symbiotic relationship between the American and international communities. When Woodbridge throws a party with an openness and elegance that seems unusual...
...whole list - is ultimately about power. You need to purchase the right to do it through some form of vulnerability, especially if you happen to be a rich, famous white man. But the I-Man - his radio persona, anyway - is not about vulnerability. (The nickname, for Pete's sake: I, Man!) That's creepy enough when he's having a big-name columnist kiss his ring; when he hurled his tinfoil thunderbolts at a team of college kids, it was too much. "Some people have said, 'Well, he says this all the time,'" Rutgers' team captain Carson told TIME...