Daily Archives: August 19, 2006

Good news

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 19, 2006

The AIDS thing is over. South African science has come up with an organic cocktail that prevents and cures the disease.

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Mentors versus Role Models

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 19, 2006

Correcting Shelley, who mentions “…the belief that all we need are mentors: examples of women who have ‘made it’. Given such is supposedly enough to somehow make women feel more comfortable, and thus encourage more to enter the profession.” What Shelley describes as a “mentor” I am used to thinking of as a “role model.” [...]

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