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Blog Entries by Philip N. Cohen from 12/2010

In Phd Hunt, Men Track Men

| Posted 12.03.2010 | College
Read More: National Science Foundation, Sex Segregation, Science, Education, Doctoral Degrees, Higher Education, Gender Inequality, Gender, College News

While women integrate, men accumulate. The National Science Foundation has published new numbers on the PhDs granted in 2009, with a nice interactive...

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Asian Images

| Posted 12.05.2010 | Media
Read More: New York Times, Media, Wikileaks, China, Hackers, Media News

Picking up today's New York Times, I was terrified by the cover image. An army of Chinese hackers was apparently coming for me. Their image seemed to ...

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Rich Budget, Poor Budget

| Posted 12.13.2010 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Akron Ohio, Poverty, Economic Policy Institute, Wealth, Childcare, Washington Post, Barack Obama, Politics News

Now that $250,000 is the official definition of a "rich" family, let's compare budgets. The Washington Post reports that "$250,000 is etched in the m...

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Parenting through the (very recent) ages

| Posted 12.16.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Ginks, New York Times, Media, Parenting, Erica Jong, Mothers, Lisa Belkin, Fathers, Healthy Living News

What are we going to do with the new Google tool? Consider "parenting." I remember reading a column by the Times' Lisa Belkin last year, in which she...

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