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...report by researchers at University of Wisconsin and University of California, Berkeley, aims to overturn the long-held belief that girls aren't as good at math as boys. According to new data, the researchers say, that gender gap has become a myth - a finding they hope will help shift the very real gender gap in math, science and technology professions, which are currently dominated...
Janet Hyde, a psychologist at University of Wisconsin, and her (all-female) collaborators culled data from federally mandated annual math tests administered to 7.2 million second- through 11th-grade students in 10 states. They found little difference between boys' and girs' average math scores. Hyde also searched for a gender difference in the outlying scores - that is, whether more boys were among the top math scorers than girls - but again found negligible difference, although boys did still slightly outnumber girls in the 99th percentile...
...address, the Pope lamented the "confusion" and "despair" caused by alcohol, drug abuse, violence, sexual degradation and a corrosive consumerism "where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experiences displace truth." Resisting the hedonism of other teens is "hard," says Matt McHugh, of Hartford, Wisconsin, who's wearing jeans and a black Nirvana T-shirt. "You see other kids doing things and it looks fun and it's tempting, but then you look at where that's going to lead." Brenda Breuer, also from Hartford, agrees: "You know what's right and wrong, but other people...
...Patriotism means believing in the best we were, are and can be while learning from the missteps along the way. Richard Sem, Trevor, Wisconsin...
...predators function as biological linchpins--without them, ecosystems plunge into chaos. To underline this point, he whisks readers from kelp forests to arctic tundra, revealing the "evolutionary dance between predator and prey"--how a dearth of wolves and cougars helped spur an infestation of white-tailed deer that munched Wisconsin's forests to the nub and how an absence of jaguars paradoxically caused a Panamanian reserve's bird population to wither. Stolzenburg narrates these cautionary tales with a conservationist's attention to ecological detail and a childlike reverence for flesh-tearing beasts. His infectious enthusiasm should spark even...