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...study suggests that while many girls have exceptional talent in math—the ability to become recognized math researchers, scientists, and engineers—they are rarely encouraged or applauded in the United States. Indicative of this American apathy toward math is the demographic evidence—the study??s data shows that girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued. American schools can, and should, improve the academic stature of math, thereby decreasing the aversion to this oft-neglected subject...
...study??which modeled the effects of varying amounts of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis—predicted that 65 million people would die from COPD and 18 million from lung disease in this period. Eighty-two percent of COPD deaths and 75 percent of lung cancer deaths in the model can be attributed to the combined effects of smoking and pollution...
...month later, Thomas McGuire, a health economics professor at Harvard Medical School and one of the journal’s editors, responded to the critique, asking for “major modifications” regarding claims of the industry influence on the study??s results. A back-and-forth exchange ensued, and Light soon hired a lawyer, Alan C. Milstein. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...creating a “zone of resistance” is that when the gene is injected in one side of the brain, it can eliminate a tumor on the other, or contralateral, side, according to Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, a pathologist at MGH and another of the study??s authors...
...most stable, whereas the men go out and go for the high risk strategy—they go hunting,” Apicella said. “They may not get something, but if they do, they win big.” The authors said that the study??s findings call into question the rationality of economic activity. The consequences of this are applicable to finance, according to co-author Benjamin C. Campbell, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Companies should consider hiring more women or older men, he said, because lower testosterone levels may lead...