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...Nationally, Cohoon said her center is making an effort to highlight aspects of occupations in computer science that are attractive to women, such as the flexibility to work in a number of different fields and locations, as well as the creative aspect of the job—a trait that she called characteristically feminine. While there has been no organized effort to attract more female students into computer science at Harvard, Malan said he openly acknowledged the gender imbalance in his course on the first day of the semester, and encouraged female students to enroll anyway...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gender Ratio Skewed in Comp Sci | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...Favorite childhood activity: Full disclosure: it was doing math. I was math team captain in high school, and I have a sweatshirt that says “we’ll kick your acids.” I may or may not be wearing it right now. Sexiest physical trait: My sidekick, Natalia Rigol ’08.5. Best part about Harvard: The people. Worst part about Harvard: The people. Don’t worry, you’re probably in the “best part about Harvard” category. Describe yourself in 3 words: Guy, a, three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoped! | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...short answer is no. The people who were attracted to the Temple did, for the most part, have one common trait. They were altruistic. They wanted to be part of something larger than themselves. So in that sense they were seekers, but in the main they were hard-working, functioning individuals who had lives that were ordinary in most senses. They had a need to join an organization where they were doing something meaningful. Keep in mind that this was in the post-civil rights and post-Vietnam eras, and a lot of young people, in particular, and older ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: A Jonestown Survivor Remembers | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...came along, no one outside of the tribe had ever become fluent in Pirahã. A few years ago, Everett made waves in the linguistics world when he challenged Noam Chomsky's idea that "recursion" - the act of combining two separate thoughts into a single sentence - was a universal trait found in all world languages. The Pirahãs don't do that, he says. They would never say, "The man who went fishing is walking back to the village." Instead, the would say, "The man went fishing. He walks to the village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

Sexiest physical trait: I am not my hair...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Scoped! | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

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