Washington, April 8: Weight bias may contribute to the glass ceiling on the advancement of women to the top levels of management, according to a study.
Mark Roehling, an associate professor of Human Resource Management at Michigan State University (MSU), has found that overweight and obese women in the U. S. are significantly underrepresented among the top CEOs.
On the other hand, while obese men were also underrepresented, he says, overweight men were actually overrepresented among top CEOs.
Washington, Apr 8: Carrying an extra four inches of fat around the waist can increase a person''s risk of being hospitalised with heart failure, warn researchers.
A study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has found that larger waist circumference is associated with increased risk of heart failure in middle-aged and older populations of men and women.
Washington, April 8: NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon.
After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for the Orion crew module.
Orion is part of the Constellation Program that is developing the next-generation spacecraft system for human exploration of the moon and further destinations in the solar system.
The Orion crew module, which will launch atop an Ares I rocket, is targeted to begin carrying astronauts to the International Space Station in 2015 and to the moon in 2020.
Washington - The legislature of the US state of Vermont on Tuesday voted to make same-sex marriage legal, overriding the governor's veto of a bill that allowed gay couples to marry.
Vermont becomes the fourth state to allow same-sex marriage, and the first to do so through the legislative process and not court action. It joins the states of Iowa, Massachusetts and Connecticut, where the courts intervened to make gay marriage legal.
Washington/Geneva - Medical personnel aided in the interrogation of US-held terrorism suspects that amounted to torture, according to a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that was confirmed by the organization Tuesday.
According to the ICRC, medical personnel hired by the CIA observed and in some cases participated in interrogations in secret CIA prisons. The methods used included starving and subjecting inmates to extreme temperatures and a simulated drowning technique known as water-boarding.
Washington - A few hundred students gathered at a US university campus to watch a pornographic film, chanting slogans about free speech and protesting threats by a state senator to cut funding if the movie was screened.
Students of the University of Maryland watched excerpts of Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge on Monday night, which was followed by a discussion on free speech by lawyers and professors.
Only half an hour of the two-and-a-half-hour film was shown - but the students had made their point.
Washington, April 8: Weight bias may contribute to the glass ceiling on the advancement of women to the top levels of management, according to a study. 
Washington, Apr 8: Carrying an extra four inches of fat around the waist can increase a person''s risk of being hospitalised with heart failure, warn researchers. 
Washington - The legislature of the US state of Vermont on Tuesday voted to make same-sex marriage legal, overriding the governor's veto of a bill that allowed gay couples to marry.
Washington/Geneva - Medical personnel aided in the interrogation of US-held terrorism suspects that amounted to torture, according to a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that was confirmed by the organization Tuesday.
Washington - A few hundred students gathered at a US university campus to watch a pornographic film, chanting slogans about free speech and protesting threats by a state senator to cut funding if the movie was screened.
