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...more so, even in areas such as math and science. Females are underestimated by society. If they are motivated and confident in their abilities, any one of them might be the next Einstein. Societal pressures keep women from succeeding in mathematical and scientific fields. Once we surmount the stereotypes, we will more than keep up with men in those fields...
...revolutionary will this be? If car sharing is to have a national impact on congestion, it must surmount a basic paradox: everyone hates traffic and smog, but few people are willing to give up their cars. In the U.S., as the saying goes, you are what you drive. And a half-century of highway subsidies has only fueled the sense of entitlement. According to a poll on traffic by TIME, ABC News and the Washington Post, only 10% of those surveyed who have access to mass transit actually use it regularly. "There's a stigma to not owning...
...this blizzard buried all other news in the major Northeastern media outlets, as if a gift from the heavens to University President Lawrence H. Summers, this winter had been a hard, bitter season. Surely, though, this was no challenge the proud snowmen and snowwomen of our campus could not surmount. Surely students would live up to their predecessors’ sang froid and dash out into the freeze, defying nature...
...tech whiz called Satellite to hook it up to a TV so the elders can watch the news. When the boy flips to Fox News, President Bush is on the screen, announcing the start of the war. But there are some things even the most modern technology can't surmount. "What is he saying?" one man asks. Satellite, whose grasp of English stretches to "Hello," stares intently at the screen, as if trying to find just the right words. "He says it's going to rain," the boy replies. Such wry scenes come thick and fast in the first half...
Leading the way for Stony Brook was guard Mykeema Ford, who totaled 19 points. The Seawolves’ Jessica Smith tallied 14 points in the losing effort. The duo scored nearly half of the team’s total points, but their efforts were not enough to surmount the five-pronged Crimson attack...