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...have no doubt about that. I think when women have equal qualifications, experience, capacities, they bring to the task a certain dimension that may be missing in men--a sensitivity to humankind. Maybe it comes from being a mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

What keeps the flu relatively in check is that there simply aren't that many species that are susceptible to it - with humans, pigs and certain kinds of birds leading the list. "There are surface markers on the cells of some species that bind with sites on the flu virus," says Dr. Peter Daszak, an emerging-disease ecologist and president of the Wildlife Trust. "The influenza virus evolved along with pigs, and it did the same with a few other mammals and with birds." (Read "To Travel or Not to Travel? A Swine Flu Dilemma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu: Don't Blame the Pig | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...College David Pilbeam terminating the Party Fund. Fortunately, the future of Harvard partying may be looking brighter these days due the UC’s recent passage of the Social Grants Act, which is a pilot program that provides funding for social events on campus provided they meet certain requirements...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Party’s Back On | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...earn his master’s and Ph.D. under Professor of American History James T. Kloppenberg, but also to teach others as a lecturer in the History department. It may look like fate in hindsight—both of his parents are teachers—but he was never certain that he would be following in their footsteps...

Author: By Katie Kuzma, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Trygve V.R. Throntveit | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...that would save 200 lives or a program with a one-third chance of saving everyone and a two-thirds chance of saving no one. Overwhelmingly, subjects chose the 200 sure things. Then the same people were given the same choice but this time framed in terms of 400 certain deaths. Most respondents changed their answers, even though the basic facts were identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fixing Government, Beware of the Brainiacs | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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