52% of companieses in washington d.c. a virginia have no women on their board. more women on the board can actually help the bottom line accordining to statistics. they outperformed the competition in every different meure by at least 40% but are enoughomen ready for the boardroom? denise hart and vicki warker are with the leadership foundry. ladies welcome. two people co-wrote a book and found statistical evidence that found it is just d business to not include women. they say men sometimes take too many risks and women are more risk-averse. what gives ladies? why are we not sitting o these boards? i think what happens is most men have men as friends, and most women have women as friends. they will tend to overwhelmingly look for another man. women do not have overall as a group they years of experience that men have, so why wouldn t a board want to pick people with experience? i think you need diversity on a board. is not like the are womomen that do not h have those
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afternoon. let me move out of the way. and we think we zeroed in on the vehicle they are now looking at. it is a camper attached to a truck which also has a camper. police noticed it down here about 3:15 this afternoon. they described it as a suspicious vehicle. they would not say exactly why it is a suspicious vehicle. but what we noticed over the laugh hour or so that they ve gone inside of this camper. let s take you up to the camera and give you a better advantage of what is going on. you see a number of police cruisers and officers in front of the camper as they go in and out to see exactly what is inside of it. let s take you to some video and we ll show what you has been going on with this vehicle just within the last hour. officers did enter this camper, which has been parked here for, according to some visitors here, for the last two days. for some reason police say it is suspicious. so they have begun going through the vehicle and pulled out a number of items. they
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. . pat mcguire, what s it like running trinity washington university? it s the best job anybody could ever have. it s new and exciting every single day. i chose to work in education because i love seeing students blossom in the care of great teachers like the faculty we have at trinity. it s a challenge every day, but it is the best possible kind of work because we literally change lives. how long have you been doing it? i ve been at it for i m in my 21st year. i started in 1989, and yet i still feel new and fresh every day. so the length of time has not diminished my enthusiasm one bit. why do you do it? i do it because i think education is one of the best ways to change our society, to help people improve their lives, to help improve the fate of the children, of the young women and older women who come to us. you know there s a saying if you educate the mothers, you ll educate the children and the families of the world. and that s what trinity s been doing fo