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SNIPPET: "Kabul, 21 April (AKI) - At least 12 female students were hospitalised in Afghanistan on Wednesday after inhaling a poisonous substance sprayed at a school in northern Afghanistan. The 12 students of the Fatima Zahra Girl School, and a teacher and an assistant were mysteriously poisoned, Hamayon Khamush, director of the hospital in Kunduz city, was quoted as saying by Xinhua." SNIPPET: "To defend their ideology, Taliban militants have attacked girl students with gas and acid." SNIPPET: "In May last year 90 girls were hospitalised in Kapisa province, north-east of the capital, after someone sprayed toxic chemicals in the...

Published on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 Women In Science Discuss Changes Students make recommendations to Summers' By RISHENG XU Crimson Staff Writer While professors and deans took to Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday to discuss Harvard’s president, members of the student group Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR) held a session to brainstorm ways in which current University policies hinder female students from concentrating in the sciences. This meeting was the first in a series of three sessions meant to generate suggestions for the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering, one of the two committees recently created by University...