Debate about the CAUSES and CONSEQUENCES of CLIMATE CHANGE and the policy positions taken in response to it should be ENCOURAGED, not silenced.

Our next-door neighbour TAUGHT physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics EXPERTS held leadership positions in my MOTHER's sorority, and electrical ENGINEERS sat on the board of my parents' COLLEGE alumni associations.

Every one of my POSITIONS cuts - out half the COUNTRY. I'm PRO-CHOICE, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.

I never really got that CHANCE at Manchester City and developed into a utility player. Playing in all the positions has MADE me a BETTER player because it's not EASY to do that. UNDERSTANDING the game has made me a more rounded player as well.

For me, it's good to have that VERSATILITY of PLAYING in different POSITIONS. WHEREVER I'm playing, I TRY to change my game.

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so MANY WAYS. Our geography, our placement in the COUNTRY, and our HISTORY positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

But AMONG them now were a large number of Communists in POSITIONS of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually MOVING close to the CENTER of power. This was the CRACK in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

I started with Paul Le Guen. He told me to double up in POSITIONS if he was missing a left back or a midfielder. From that MOMENT, it was CLEAR in my mind that I would be a professional footballer, and I began WORKING EVEN faster to get there.

I think as more WOMEN are in positions of POWER, more people of COLOR are in positions of power, the stories become more INCLUSIVE; the casts become more inclusive.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the OTHERS players: to KNOW what they're THINKING, where and how they are GOING to move.

Political SCIENCE has LONG TRIED to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold VIEWS that they like, or do voters choose POLICY positions because the politicians they like say those positions are correct?

There's plenty of talented WOMEN. Why do men TAKE over the IMPORTANT positions? It's SIMPLE. Love, FAMILY, children - a woman doesn't want to sacrifice all of that.

At the Centers for Disease CONTROL, I ROSE up fairly quickly into management POSITIONS. The first team I led there included many people who had been my supervisors in previous roles or were more senior than I was. So it was KIND of a daunting challenge.