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...some 1,500 mosques in the U.S., ADAMS is one of the more progressive. Its $5 million center in Sterling serves 5,000 mostly middle- and upper-middle-income Sunni and Shi'ite families from more than a dozen ethnic backgrounds. In many mosques abroad and in the U.S., women are required to pray in rooms separate from the men. At ADAMS, women not only pray in the same room with the men (although in a partitioned-off section in the back), they hold four of the 13 seats on the mosque's board of trustees and chair a majority...
...want to keep doing the things that have made us successful in the game until that point.”CORNELL 4, HARVARD 3With a one-goal lead at home against the No. 3 Big Red, and with just over 10 minutes left to play, Harvard had the upper hand.But two Cornell goals less than three minutes apart gave the Big Red a 4-3 victory Friday night.After playing catch-up and turning over the puck for much of the third period, Cornell (4-2-0, 3-1-0) took a timeout at 13:41.The Crimson...
...Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: www.irs.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/top.html With a face modeled on Marilyn Monroe's and a long, flowing skirt to hide its three wheels, the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot is a 5-ft. 5-in. waltzing humanoid. Available in hot pink or blue, it has upper-body sensors that allow it to "predict" its partner's next steps. Dancing is just one application. "By interpreting users' movements to estimate what they want, care robots will be able to provide better service for the elderly who may be too sick or handicapped to give verbal orders," says bioengineering...
...Then she attended a workshop at GE organized by Deborah Elam, GE's newly appointed chief diversity officer. Elam, who is African-American, felt the lack of organized support for women of color in the upper ranks at GE, and put together what she called the Multicultural Women's Initiative-one aspect of which targets high-potential women like Ho for a weekend-long bootcamp. Ho networked with other GE executives who urged her to be more aggressive. It recently helped her win a tough, new assignment as chief operating officer for equipment services in China...
...think the school has definitely had the upper-hand in framing this debate,” he said...