Quote of the Day Larry Summers' women-in-science controversy has faded at Harvard, but it lives on in media year-end wrap-ups. Like, for example, this from Newsweek:

"When they are sitting there constantly saying, 'Am I smart enough? Am I smart enough?' it doesn't really help when the president of the university says, 'Maybe you're not'."

—Harvard physics professor Melissa Franklin, on comments made by Harvard president Lawrence Summers that suggested women might not be as well equipped for the sciences as men. Summers has since apologized.  ¶ 10:32 AM