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University of California-Davis sociologist Kimberlee A. Shauman, whose research with University of Michigan colleague Yu Xie was cited in Summers’ remarks, called Summers’ claims “uninformed,” in an interview with The Crimson that month. And Xie said he accepted Summers’ comments as “scholarly propositions,” although he said his own analysis “goes against Larry’s suggestion that math ability is something innate...
...News trickled out last week that Ching Cheong, the Hong Kong-based chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times, had been detained in late April on suspicion of espionage. Three days later, word spread that Lu Jianhua, a sociologist at the government-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, and another CASS administrator, Chen Hui, had been rounded up around the same time for allegedly leaking state secrets?a charge that, like espionage, can carry the death penalty. But in an open letter to Hong Kong newspapers last Friday, Ching's wife, Mary Lau, claimed that...
...that a self-described "nationalist" reporter who once worked for Hong Kong's pro-Beijing daily Wen Wei Po and a sociologist who often appeared on Chinese television to promote government policy are being detained for anti-Chinese activities? According to Lau, the 55-year-old reporter was picked up by Chinese security personnel on April 22 while in Guangzhou to collect a top-secret manuscript by a friend of Zhao Ziyang, the popular ex-Premier purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, who died under house arrest in January. Although the manuscript's exact contents are not clear, a previous...
...shorter stint really solve the Army's recruiting woes? For one thing, those 15 months come only after the recruit has completed basic and advanced individual training, which can take another three to six months depending on the job a recruit is headed for. Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University, argues the Army should make the commitment 15 months total, coupled with generous education benefits, and market it to a group the service has largely ignored: recent college graduates looking for a character-building adventure before taking a civilian job or going to grad school. "We now graduate...
...blender. You can have a baby at any age from 15 to 50. You may find yourself back in school at 30, 40 or 60. And that's partly because you can be put out to pasture by your employer at any age at all. University of Minnesota sociologist Phyllis Moen tracks the breakdown of the "lockstep" life path in her book The Career Mystique. What does midlife even mean, wonders Moen, when life's trajectory is no longer linear? "I make fun of people who say that midlife is between 35 and 70, because what in the world...