| In departments, minding the gender gap
W hen Harvard president Lawrence Summers suggested in 2005 that differences in the innate abilities of men and women might explain why fewer women succeed in careers in math and science, his remarks drew angry accusations of male chauvinism. The fact remains, however, that the hard sciences are largely male-dominated and that fields in the arts are often seen as feminine. Still, even the most heavily gender-stereotyped departments on campus such as art and archaeology and mechanical and aerospace engineering do consistently attract a minority of students of the opposite gender. Tyler Crosby '09 and Rachel Johnson '09 are two such students, and their stories shed light on what it's like being in a department with the opposite gender stereotype.
Renaissance Man: Tyler Crosby '09, Art and Archaeology
"I want to be a Renaissance man," said Crosby, a junior in the art and archaeology department.
Intromark Incorporated Launches unseenontv.com - a Website of Innovative New Products that Have Never Been Sold on TV
From innovative health and beauty products to original automotive accessories, Intromark's www.unseenontv.com has all types of new products in all sorts of categories. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) November 16, 2007 -- Looking for unique new products to buy or sell? If so, Intromark Incorporated introduces UnSeen On TV, a website that features a wide variety of new products. Unlike the items sold "as seen on TV", consumers can't get the majority of our innovative products through late-night infomercials or in most mass-market retailers. From innovative health and beauty products to original automotive accessories, www.unseenontv.com has all types of new products in all sorts of categories. And, since most of our products are also available for individual purchase, Unseen On TV offers cutting-edge consumers a great place to look for unique devices, gadgets and tools that provide solutions to everyday problems.
Halftime harassment
A ritual at Giants Stadium involves crowds of men clamoring for women to take off their shirts. When is a breast just a breast?Women in Sweden are fighting for the right to go topless. Miss Landmine 2008At a beauty pageant held for Angola's land mine victims, the prize is a prosthetic leg. .
Tight spaces, room to grow
Surrounded by tight living quarters populated by her two parents, a set of quintuplets approaching their second birthday, and two other siblings, it isn't surprising Allyson Wing, a 15-year-old Shepherd High School sophomore, would have housing conditions uppermost in mind this year. Volunteer carpenters using generous donations of building supplies are slowly but surely erecting a three-bedroom addition with full bath, utility room and basement onto the Wing household's three-bedroom manufactured housing unit located at 10520 Shepherd Rd, in Coe Township, south of Shepherd. Since the arrival of the three girls and two boys on Jan. 30, 2006, the Wings have converted their small living room into a nursery, made an adjoining dining room a magnet for toys and a combined family room and kitchen the only cozy spot for everyone to congregate, eat meals, and relax, as best they can.
Design turns over a greener leaf
At Design Tide and 100% Design, the big shows at last week's Tokyo Designer's Week, this shift was evident. Eminent British designer Jasper Morrison, writing in U.K. design magazine Icon in August, hit a nerve with the following words: "Design, which used to be almost unknown as a profession, has become a major source of pollution. Encouraged by glossy lifestyle magazines and marketing departments, it's become a competition to make things as noticeable as possible by means of color, shape and surprise. Its historic and idealistic purpose, to serve industry and the happy consuming masses at the same time, of conceiving things easier to make and better to live with, seems to have been side-tracked." The same journal has even publicly called for a "design recession" to trim the fat and to refocus design talent and ideals toward responding to genuine needs.
S.C., Georgia to share in Jasper port
Governors Mark Sanford and Sonny Perdue met recently on a waterfront patio across the Savannah River from the historic district of its namesake city to make a little history themselves: the formal announcement of a rare, bi-state partnership to jointly build and operate a massive cargo container terminal on land Georgia owns in South Carolina. A little more than six months ago, the South Carolina and Georgia governors said they wanted to set aside years of legal acrimony attached to the Jasper County land. On Nov. 9, the governors announced they now had a deal in handpending approval by their respective Legislaturesto create a port on 1,400 acres of undeveloped land that now serves as a dump site for dredged spoil material. The announcement, made outside the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center, sets in motion a series of events in which construction could begin within five years on property known as the Jasper Ocean Terminal, with actual cargo passing through it in 10 years.
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