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...pursue a career and raise a family prompted some readers to share stories of confronting the country's traditional attitudes to gender roles. Other readers felt that the value of spending time with children while they are young should not be discounted I'm 35 and a woman scientist. Your article "The German Question," about the struggle for gender equality and the difficulties workingwomen face underlined issues that are very much my everyday reality [Jan. 30]. After learning about the ways other societies function, I believe there is still much progress to be made here in Germany. Like many others...
...change Germany into a modern society with room for both children and women's careers. German women have to lead the movement for change, and change always hurts. Anne Gro Gulla Oslo Power Politics In his column "Be careful what you wish for," Michael Elliott referred to political scientist Michael Mandelbaum's argument that the U.S. has promoted global security by reducing the threat of world war [Jan. 23]. In quoting Mandelbaum's theories, Elliott evokes the prominent role of the U.S. during the past few decades in the peacemaking processes around the world. Elliott deplores the loneliness...
...Martin, Harvard’s technical director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems, which will be the building’s chief occupant, attempted to minimize fears about the lab, saying that the activity there would occur on a very “human scale.” The scientist walked residents through the basics of nanotechnology research, pulling empty beakers and petri dishes out of a gray toolbox to illustrate his presentation. The center will study the “novel” physical and chemical properties that emerge from particles in their smallest forms. Two members...
Walker plays the improbably named Gerry Shepherd, a guide in an Antarctic field division, traipsing across the desolate continent with a scientist (Bruce Greenwood, “Capote”) and his eight furry compatriots...
...later said that Iran might be the only nation in the world that would use a nuclear bomb if it acquired one, and that the former chief Pakistani nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, who aided nuclear weapons programs in Iran, North Korea, and Libya, deserved a “Nobel War Prize” and is the “most evil, dangerous person on the face of the Earth today...