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According to statistics provided by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the gender imbalance within CS classes seems to grow with each subsequent course on the CS track...
...time students reach CS124, a class that usually comes later in the track, female enrollment drops to 18 percent...
...baby problem began to get traction, according to Christine D. Wenc, a History of Science grad student who was particularly active in the parent community at the time of Summers’ remarks. The statistics were telling: nationwide, women with children are less likely to enter the tenure-track, less likely to receive tenure, and more likely to leave academia entirely than their childless or male counterparts. And surveys at Harvard and elsewhere suggest that students with children, and particularly women, can face a discouraging environment. In a 2008 survey of the University’s student parents, 25 percent...
...promise of freedom from want. They established the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and pledged to achieve them by 2015. These eight goals address the root causes of global poverty: tyrants like infectious disease, hunger, and gender inequality. Now, five years from the deadline, none of the goals are on track to be accomplished. These goals, once beacons of hope in the fight on global poverty, are becoming broken promises to people across the world...
...which contained a military reactor built in 1977 for unspecified "defense purposes." The power was out, and moments before the convoy pulled out, the earth shook with yet another strong aftershock, with its epicenter at Valparaiso. As the convoy left, Bieniawski took out his phone, called up the sound track for the Pirates of the Caribbean movie - his favorite "pump up" track - and hit play. "It's time to raise our game, fellas," he said...