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...As a woman??in science, I know that you cannot overestimate the pervasiveness of attitudes discouraging girls from pursuing math and science. I grew up in a university town, the daughter of a female biologist, but still felt societal and peer pressure that made me believe I couldn't be smart at science. I credit my seventh-grade science teacher with encouraging me to break through my personal stereotypes and refusing to allow me to settle for B's or C's when he knew I could achieve...
...from simply winning to smashing a ball at a female opponent?is a player in trouble. There are other divided and ultimately unstrung souls: the man who needs to feel great hostility in order to play hard, but whose conscience tells him that hostility is a bad thing. The woman???these days she is usually over 35?for whom beating her husband or trying to win at all may be a deep and sensitive taboo. Many women admit that they want to win, but feel "I'm being mean" when they do. Gallwey, for example, has watched superior women players...
...many. If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the presidency or the vice presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman???my dear wife?as I begin this very difficult...
...outside the bank, DeFreeze fired again, at Pharmacist Ken Outlander, 62, but missed. The bandits raced away in the station wagon, their escape covered by the four accomplices in the Hornet. Police and FBI agents could not identify the four people?either four men or three men and a woman???but believed that some were among the five S.L.A. members sought in Patty's abduction. They are Angela Atwood, 25, Emily Harris, 27, and her husband William, 29, Thero Wheeler, 29, and William Wolfe...
...would the inhabitants want for luxuries. Levitt believes that virtually anything man?or woman???might desire can be produced on the moon by combining available minerals with a source of energy to produce chemical reactions. One of Levitt's chemical chains, beginning with carbon and calcium, can lead to the manufacture of medicines, plastics, dyes, food additives, rubber, ceramics, even fertilizers and textiles. "Naturally, we're going to insist that the girls go with us to the moon," grins Levitt, "and when we get there we'll be able to make all of their lipsticks, perfumes, nail polishes?you name...