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Discuss “Annual MOSAIC conference celebrates "Milestones"”

“The more we talk, the less we will have problems,” said famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer in the keynote address that kicked off the 2006 MOSAIC conference yesterday. Though referring to sexual problems, her advice can be applied to all the topics that Carnegie Mellon’s annual gender issues conference brought to the forefront.

This year’s event was designed to to appeal to a more diverse audience by offering programs with a gender-related spin on a wider variety of topics — from female activism to social security, dieting, dating, drama, health care, and the Great Depression.

“[The conference’s goal was] to get people thinking about gender as it applies to our lives,” said Becca Steinberg, a senior technical writing...

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