washingtonpost.com - MassachusettsMassachusettsWomen who brave volcanoes, help gorillas and study the seas.By Karen MacPherson- May 8, 2005 Harvard University President Lawrence Summers incited an ideological riot earlier this year when he suggested that women may be innately unsuited for success in math and science. But Summers's remarks, for which he subsequently apologized, are a moot point to women like Donna O'Meara and Felicia Nutter. Their talents and interests led both women into careers in science: O'Meara as a globe-trotting volcano researcher and Nutter as a field veterinarian in Rwanda for a research project on...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41351-2005May6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... D.C. Math Educator Named Nation's Best- May 8, 2005 Jason Kamras, of the District's Sousa Middle School has been named the National Teacher of the Year, the first time in the contest's 53-year history that a D.C. educator has won.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63971-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Procedure On Women In Labor Adds Risk- May 8, 2005 One of the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States -- an incision many pregnant women receive to reduce the risk of tissue tears during delivery -- has no benefits and actually causes more complications, according to the most comprehensive analysis to evaluate the practice.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35515-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/m... Cuban Tied to Terror Case Seeks U.S. Asylum- May 8, 2005 CIA-trained exile's case prompts at least one congressman to assert that granting the request would undermine the nation's credibility in the war on terrorism.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47870-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... New Memo Offers View Of Mfume's NAACP- May 8, 2005 The screaming match between Monica McCullough and Tiffany Hawthorne at the NAACP's national headquarters in Baltimore was getting out of hand when three co-workers tried to intervene.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27060-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Man Charged in Mass. Woman's Death- May 8, 2005 After more than three years of frustration, false leads and a controversial dragnet for DNA evidence, prosecutors announced Friday that police have arrested a suspect in the slaying of fashion writer Christa Worthington on Cape Cod.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56673-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Service Honors Life Of 7-Year-Old Boy- May 8, 2005 Beneath a row of stained-glass windows lay fragments of a young boy's life, neatly arrayed. A plush lion. A soccer trophy. A school library book called "Tropical Storms and Hurricanes" that he had recently checked out to help his mother learn to read in English.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16407-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Web Censors in China Find Success- May 8, 2005 The Chinese government is succeeding in broadly censoring what its citizens can read on the Internet, surprising many experts and denting U.S. government hopes that online access would be a quick catalyst for democratic political reform.-The Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51712-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... 30 Years Later, Immigrants Shed Vietnam War's Burden- May 8, 2005 Thirty is now the median age of the 1.2 million people of Vietnamese heritage living in the United States. Thirty is young enough to be haunted by Vietnam, old enough to have created new lives.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Small Protest Precedes Mass by U.S. Cardinal- May 8, 2005 VATICAN CITY, April 11 -- Cardinal Bernard F. Law presided over a Mass in mourning for Pope John Paul II on Monday, a few hours after Italian police broke up a peaceful demonstration by two American victims of sex abuse who were protesting the Vatican's choice of Law for the honor.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45365-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... |