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Female faculty in the humanities say that the obstacles they face rarely reek of conscious discrimination...
...Best Contemporary Jazz Album, but Ken Burns and Wynton Marsalis might not file it under "Jazz." Foremost a dance band, Liquid Soul makes improvisation take a backseat to grooves aimed at shaking backsides. Sadly, the band freights the album's first half with uninspired chants, and the self-conscious guest vocals by Simone, daughter of Nina, add more sandbags to the balloon. Later on, when everyone shuts up and lets the horns do the singing, it's easier to get up and dance...
...departure, her 14-year-old brother, Shekhar, watched Batra pull up outside the house in an auto-rickshaw, walk Babita to a bench, sit her down and leave. "I thought Babita had come home for a visit," says Shekhar. But when he walked over, he found Babita slumped, barely conscious. The right side of her head was so swollen it hung over her ear. Her body was covered in nail scratches and bruises. Her thumb was broken. Shekhar ran to fetch his mother, and they rushed Babita to a hospital, where a doctor diagnosed a severe concussion. Then, gathering...
...cannot look at any neuron's activity and say that the person or animal is conscious or aware of that activity," says Robert A. Stickgold, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School...
Being coolly logical, environmentally conscious types, they were happy last week to do their bit for conservation. Search engine Google turned off all the lava lamps at its ultrahip Mountain View headquarters. Santa Clara-based DSL provider Covad soldiered on without its cubicle heaters. But not everyone coped with equal aplomb: employees at Keen.com in San Francisco were said by their p.r. rep to be "frothing at the mouth" at the possibility that their Ping-Pong tournament, needing optimal lighting for peak performance, might be postponed by power cuts. Some activities are still sacred after...