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...American Association of University Women report found that although the number of women entering science and engineering fields is growing, gender biases still affect their career aspirations. While boys and girls graduate from high school with similar math and science grades and the ratio of males to females who score above 700 on the math SAT has narrowed from 13:1 to 3:1 in the past three decades, women still earn only 20% of bachelor's degrees in physics and engineering...
While the loss certainly comes as a disappointment to the Crimson, it doesn’t affect the conference standings that will ultimately determine Harvard’s tournament chances. After Ivy League favorite Cornell was upset by Dartmouth over the weekend, the team is aware that anything can happen the rest...
...this, but once you have seen something like that it’s hard to pretend it never happened. Unfortunately, incidents like these are far too common at Harvard, because much of the student body seems not to realize that their actions inside their rooms leak into and affect the outside world...
...screen, then it will withhold from the theater a 2-D version of the movie to play instead ... Many multiplexes only have a single 3-D screen, so not having a conventional version of the highly anticipated DreamWorks family film to play on their other screens would severely affect ticket sales." Add to this the reported hints of an embargo that could deprive theater owners of hit films for months. According to the industry news blog the Wrap, "Executives at the [ShoWest] exhibition trade conference in Las Vegas said Paramount had suggested it might not be so forthcoming with Iron...
...you’ve been paying attention in Psych, you know this could be attributed to interviewers’ misinterpretation of core affect, or what Freud would call a “projection bias.” When admission officers feel gloomy on a rainy day, they are more likely to interpret the gloominess as an indication of an unimpressive application...