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Article: STUDY: WHERE ARE GIRLS AT GEOGRAPHY BEES?(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2005
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Byline: Vicki Hyman Newhouse News Service
Geographers study where things are located on the surface of the Earth, and why. So they have noted that boys are located on the stage at the annual National Geographic Bee in Washington, D.C., and girls are ... not.
Why boys appear to excel at this particular brand of mental athletics is the stumper. Certainly there are female atlas-worshipping, globe-fondling social scientists who can not only pinpoint the Aozou Strip on a map, but name the natural resource at the center of the recently resolved territorial dispute there. (Northern Chad and uranium, for those keeping score at home.)
But in the ...