Harvard row over sex and science
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The president of Harvard University angers women academics by saying men may naturally be better at science.
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Science butts up against religious beliefs yet again in the ever-contentious world of stem-cell politics.
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Â· Speech posted on liberal Anglican websiteÂ· College principal under fire from some staff
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl  and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring  pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate  in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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A Harvard expert assesses the risks and rewards for the schoolâs first female president.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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The contentious debate over paid admission at t
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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Lawyers for a Georgia school district and a group of parents clashed on Monday over the constitutionality of placing stickers that challenge the theory of evolution on textbooks.
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An advance in stem cell research that was intended to resolve moral differences over the promising but controversial field has ignited fresh conflict instead.
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The division of Harvard Medical School that studies pathological gambling is under fire from some antigambling activists who point out that virtually all its funding comes from the gambling industry.
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A debate over an anthropologist's book on ancient Hebrew history isn't just academic &#151; it's spilled over into an online dispute between critics trying to keep her from getting tenure and supporters who say the effort stifles scholarly freedom.
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Moves to bring sex out of the closet in  largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate  between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates,  and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.
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Nature is fighting back in response to female promiscuity by producing a biological &#39;sperm&#39; chastity belt, say US scientists.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - Efforts to attract top female  scholars to Harvard University could be hurt by the Ivy League  school president's suggestion that women do not have the same  natural ability in math and sciences as men, a group of Harvard  professors said.
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Georgia is caught up in another dispute over whether and how evolution should be taught in biology classes. This time, the argument is over a Cobb County school official&#39;s decision to put stickers in textbooks
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Scientists risk debates on their research being shaped by minority "maverick" views, Lord Martin Rees warns.