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...working full time earn only 80% as much as their male counterparts do. True, female students tend to major in fields associated with lower earnings, such as education and health professions, which accounts for part of the wage gap. But even among co-eds who majored in the same subject in college, men are still earning more money than their female counterparts just 12 months out of the college gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women's Pay: Lagging From the Start | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...recent graduate numbers includes an apples-to-apples comparison of full-time workers who majored in the same subject, and the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women's Pay: Lagging From the Start | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...would likely leave it alone. It is always difficult in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to establish causality and blame, but offering shelter to criminals and those who murder civilians is an invitation for police intervention. Just as one who harbored a known murderer in any civilized country would be subject to search and imprisonment, such are some residents of Balata. Tahreer calls the terrorists and gunmen who the IDF kills “martyrs,” but calling someone who conspires to murder civilians a “martyr” and a “freedom fighter?...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein | Title: Politicizing the Playground | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...jump out the window.” It’s hard to say if The Shins are trying to make a point with all of these contradictions, but who cares? The video provides enough standard indie bliss to divert our attention from the song’s murky subject matter...

Author: By Benjamin C. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: The Shins | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...horrified that the possibility of significant calendar reform (“Vote Yes On Calendar Reform, editorial, Apr. 18) can be contemplated without a full and informed discussion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where it is well known that a wide range of opinion obtains on this subject. That the Undergraduate Council could suggest that student opinion and a decision of the Governing Boards serve to settle this matter in favor of the Council’s own proposal fails to take into account that faculty have fully as much at stake in the calendar discussions...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes | Title: Say No to the UC’s Proposed Calendar Reform | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

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