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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- March 8 = International Women’s Day
- black hole: an object in space that is so dense (with such strong gravity) that not even light can escape
- forefront: the principal or leading position
- binary: two things (maybe yes/no, maybe 0/1, maybe male/female)
- binary system: a system with two things
- long-shot: something that seems impossible (because it’s very difficult or improbable)
- tenure: a contract for professors (when they have been at a university for a long time and now have an agreement that will keep them there with more job security)
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- http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/two-latinas-forefront-historic-science-discovery-n516716
- Read the article and, with a partner, make sure you understand all the words and ideas in it.
- What was the discovery? Why was it important?
- Why is it newsworthy that the two principal scientists are Latina women?
- (newsworthy = interesting or important enough to write a news story about it)
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- Homework: find and bring a newspaper or magazine article about an important female scientist (if you can find one from your country or region, even better, but not necessary) (not Marie Curie)
- You can look in archives for old newspaper articles:
- http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
- https://www.elephind.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives
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