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...report by researchers at University of Wisconsin and University of California, Berkeley, aims to overturn the long-held belief that girls aren't as good at math as boys. According to new data, the researchers say, that gender gap has become a myth - a finding they hope will help shift the very real gender gap in math, science and technology professions, which are currently dominated...
Four-star general Walter (Dutch) Kerwin, who helped pioneer the U.S. military's historic shift to an all-volunteer force in the 1970s, had seen firsthand the problems that could plague a conscripted army fighting a modern war. Kerwin, who died at 91 on July 11, was the Army's personnel chief during the Vietnam War, grappling with draftees deserting, abusing drugs and even murdering unpopular commanders. With draftees' tours limited to 12 months, military units lost their vital cohesion. In order to help "bring this level of indiscipline down," as he told Congress at the time, Kerwin drafted plans...
...Dhabi's funds, and those in such places as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are part of an epochal shift in the economic balance of power toward the energy-rich Gulf. It helps that the downturn in the U.S. economy and the anemic dollar are offering up relative bargains. Shares in GE - the great symbol of American management prowess - have fallen by more than a quarter in the last year...
Only three years ago, Eddie Vedder was working the night shift at a service station in San Diego, sometimes telling people he was a security guard to impress them. He doesn't have to worry about that anymore. Today the 28-year- old singer and lyricist for the alternative-metal band Pearl Jam is rock's newest demigod. His group's debut album, Ten, has sold nearly 6 million copies and still ranks in the Top 30 of the Billboard album chart more than 90 weeks after its release. This week the Seattle-based quintet will release its second album...
...Administration's case for upholding the Pennsylvania law, stood up to the judicial barrage at a press conference. ''Some weeks are better than others,'' he shrugged. Seizing on Burger's support for the dissenters in the Pennsylvania decision, Fried countered, ''I think what we have here is a shift in the (abortion) balance.'' Pro-lifers swiftly followed Fried's lead, pointing out that while Roe vs. Wade had passed the court by 7 to 2, pro-abortion majorities had shrunk to 6 to 3 in a 1983 case, and last week to 5 to 4. At the convention...