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...making much longer. Like most of Bangladesh's 1.8 million textile workers, she has heard rumors that next year the American and European companies that buy clothes from her country will switch to Chinese manufacturers, leading to a shutdown of garment factories in Dhaka. The zero-sum math of globalization makes little sense to one of its potential victims. "How can the Chinese make clothes more cheaply than we do," asks Begum, "when I get paid so little...
...same time, Schwarzenegger is coming under attack by Republicans on his right who object to his progressive position on many social issues. Says state senator Tom McClintock, who ran against Schwarzenegger in the election that recalled Davis: "You cannot finance socially liberal programs with fiscally conservative policies. The math just doesn't work." Conservatives like McClintock think Schwarzenegger caved in too easily to Democratic opposition to a $1 billion cut in health and social services last year. They also disapproved of the Governor's support for a ballot initiative, passed handily in November, that provided $3 billion in state funds...
...join in the fun! And if you know the etymology of “meme,” please shoot me an email. Here I present to you this year’s stats, divided into easily digestible categories. (Who says humanities people can’t do math...
...recent track record of the math department seems to substantiate this claim. Harris describes a process over the past 10 years in which the math department has “been trying to actively look for women.” During that time, the department has made about four offers at the senior faculty level to females, all of which were rejected...
...math department’s unique and hierarchical process of awarding tenure may contribute to the lack of senior females in the department...