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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opposition to the continuation of the program seems based in the fear that it will be perceived as discriminatory against men, leaving Harvard open to lawsuits for violation of Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments. This law stipulates that universities and colleges must offer men and women equal educational...

Author: By Gabriella S. Rosen and Dalia L. Rotstein, S | Title: Women Well Served by Science Alliance | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

Yet it is hard to imagine that the goals of the Science Alliance might be achieved as effectively through such programs. Incoming first-years will be much more likely to be convinced that they should try science than mid-year students who have already opted for humanities courses. Indeed, the...

Author: By Gabriella S. Rosen and Dalia L. Rotstein, S | Title: Women Well Served by Science Alliance | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

It has also been suggested that the program be maintained in its current form but simply allow males to apply. Those men interested in panels on motherhood could, the argument goes, benefit from the program as much as women could. But allowing men into the program would immediately alter the...

Author: By Gabriella S. Rosen and Dalia L. Rotstein, S | Title: Women Well Served by Science Alliance | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

Considering they could spend as many as five years in prison for their deception, Aziz-Golshani and Melamed will probably think twice before trying this money-making scheme again. But, as SEC officials and law enforcement agencies know, there are plenty of other opportunists who'd be happy to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Con Artists Separate the Quick and the Redfaced | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

One bombed-out embassy in Belgrade: $28 million. Repairing U.S. relations with China over the matter: Priceless. At least that's what the Clinton administration hopes after agreeing to pay China $28 million in compensation for inadvertently wrecking the country's Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo conflict. In return, Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Price of Chinese Embassies | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

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