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...unattractive in women. When future NASA researcher Nancy Grace Roman asked a high school teacher if she could take an additional year of mathematics, the reaction was, “What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?” Aside from discrimination, Yale Professor of Physics C. Meg Urry struggled with the lack of role models in the sciences. She said she had never heard of a woman scientist until she entered graduate school. Yesterday, Urry said she was excited just sitting at the same table as the other four pioneers. “These women...were incredibly...
...owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character closes her cozy kids' bookstore, unable to compete with the chain around the corner), Ross decided to fight back...
PREDICTOR Psychic ''Mystic Meg'' in the supermarket tabloid Globe PREDICTION Fear of disease will prompt Madonna to remarry Sean Penn and become ''the new Julie Andrews of the film world.'' WHAT HAPPENED Sean Penn and Robin Wright had their second child. Madonna starred in Body of Evidence, an S&M bomb...
...back of the room where she can see him. One of their three children is actor-director Rob Reiner. He gave the world a taste of his mom's sassiness when he cast her as the restaurant customer who famously requests, "I'll have what she's having," following Meg Ryan's fake orgasm in 1989's When Harry Met Sally...
Last week, eBay CEO Meg Whitman sat down with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner in Los Angeles to talk about the online auction site, its acquisition of Skype, and her favorite (other) online communities. Here are some highlights...