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...industrialized countries like the United States, gender gaps in education are to the advantage of girls, said Summers, who drew criticism last year for suggesting that "issues of intrinsic aptitude" might explain a deficiency of women in science...
...remarks touched on a controversial subject for Summers, who came under fire one year ago after he suggested that "issues of intrinsic aptitude" could help explain the scarcity of females in the sciences. He has since committed $50 million over the next decade to address the issue at Harvard...
...Davos Diary," by The Financial Times "A year after he was embroiled in a row over his musings that biological differences might explain a paucity of senior women scientists, Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, yesterday pointed out that for every 100 male US college graduates there were 130 women. He omitted to say whether he thought this was possibly caused by the biological superiority of women...
...fidgety audience when he finally ended the marathon lunchtime event by saying he had to get home in time for a dinner. Facing proliferating questions about whether he had gone too far with the surveillance and whether he has lost control of operations in Iraq, Bush seemed eager to explain himself. At length. In a clip sure to delight the likes of Jon Stewart, Bush said that his job description of President would be "a decision maker-I make a lot of decisions...
...McClellan told reporters Friday: "We are stepping up our efforts to educate the American people about this vital tool in the war on terrorism ahead of the congressional hearing." House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said after Bush's speech that he "missed a critical opportunity today to explain why, more than four years after the 9/11 attacks, the American people are not as safe as they should...