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...differences can be large...but cognitive differences are tiny: far too small to account for the enormous gap between the proportion of capable female students, on one hard, and of female professors, on the other. For example, there’s a slight tendency for girls to have higher verbal skills than boys, but we’d be crazy to take this small difference into account in hiring English professors. The effects are so small that knowing the gender of a candidate scholar of Elizabethan theatre will tell us next to nothing about his or her achievements or potential...
...abuse among equals" in secondary schools noted that the country's "classrooms, school playgrounds, hallways and bathrooms ... often become regular sites for violent episodes." In France, almost 13% of students say they've been the target of multiple bullying incidents, while the number of violent incidents in schools - including verbal attacks, fighting and theft, as well as bullying - rose from 72,000 during the 2002-03 school year to 81,000 one year later. In Germany, the percentage of pupils who say they've been involved in physical violence has doubled within a generation, from 5% in the 1970s...
...employees. This not only includes having a safe and harassment-free working environment, but also the policies and procedures to allow any grievances to be heard in a fair manner." Bullying in the workplace takes many forms, from meaningless tasks and impossible deadlines to rumor, ridicule, and physical or verbal intimidation. In every field, from the arts to the military, there are boundaries of acceptable behavior: in December, British Royal Navy Commander David Axon was permanently relieved of control of the frigate H.M.S. Somerset following allegations that he had verbally abused two service members. According to Charlotte Rayner, professor...
...grabbed Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan, the CIA whisked him to a secret facility outside Bangkok and asked the FBI to send some agents to Thailand to assist in "sweating" him, as it's known in the trade. Leery of that idea, FBI boss Robert Mueller declined and issued a verbal order that any G-men who visited the CIA outpost should read the debriefing reports but stay out of the interrogation room. Abu Zubaydah soon began to sing and, among other things, quickly fingered Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Perry Bacon...
...wasting, of the temporal lobes of the brain. In fact, the researchers found that for every 1-point rise in BMI, the risk of temporal-lobe atrophy increased between 13% and 16%. The temporal lobes, which are often affected in Alzheimer's disease, play a role in memory, verbal expression and language comprehension...