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Now, you know this probably spells trouble. There do seem to be some good, qualified people on this panel. But the Vice Chair of the panel is Dr. Camilla Persson Benbow, who co-authored a series of papers in the 1980s that have been used repeatedly ever since to buttress the myth that women are inferior to men in the higher aptitude levels of science and math. Giving a controversial figure like Dr. Benbow such a prominent leadership post sends a very bad message.
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is calling for her removal from this panel. Check out the details below the fold and sign the AWM's petition. Read More
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The new city must be something very different, Mr. Reiss says, with better services and fewer poor people. "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically," he says. "I'm not just speaking for myself here. The way we've been living is not going to happen again, or we're out."
Not only did Chafee, a moderate Republican, cast a write-in ballot for W's father as a form of protest, he now says he's not ruling out switching parites. Read More
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