Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women in Science" (Science and Technology, Feb. 10): You did a good job of presenting a complicated issue. As a former two-term chair of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, however, I feel it is necessary to put this subject in a more comprehensive context...
...term "parents" carries different connotations for different people. Some of us talk to our mothers or fathers almost every day. Some haven't made contact with them in months. Others might not have any parents to get in touch with at all. And even among those of us whose family life resembles a 1950s sitcom fantasy-world, parents' attitudes toward visiting college will vary. Those juniors who are first-born or only children might still inspire their parents' awe by showing them Lowell House. My parents, by contrast, are tuition junkies well on their way to burnout. As of next...
Some of the funding for student groups comesdirectly from the student body. Students have theoption of paying a $20 student activity fee ontheir term bills, and some of the money collectedfrom this goes to student group grants...
Nonetheless, the proposal has attracted broad support from voters. A poll published in the Sacramento Bee last Dec. 9 reported that nearly seven of 10 California voters favor a proposed ballot measure to scrap bilingual education in public schools and replace it with a short-term English immersion program. More interestingly, though, is the source of support: the poll found approval for the proposed initiative running strongly across all ethnic groups--including 66 percent of Latino voters. The high percentage of supporters among the Latino community is significant, given that the Latino students are the ones who will be most...
...suburban Los Angeles hospital, Baby Billy, as he was nicknamed by the local paper, is a medical miracle--the product of an embryo frozen for 7 1/2 years. For a few days last week, Billy, whose parents prefer anonymity, was hailed as the oldest human embryo ever brought to term. Then the bubble burst...