Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 18, 2000

Volume 28, Number 21

In the News

"We can retire early or work longer and the choice will be ours. In 2030, I think life will be much, much better."

-- Economist John Rust, "After the (Baby) Boom," Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), Jan. 28, 2000

"The Texas courts do not even require that defense counsels remain awake during trial. The lawyer representing a defendant named George McFarland, who is now on death row, repeatedly fell asleep and snored during his [client's] trial in Houston."

-- Law School lecturer Stephen B. Bright, in his article "A Smooth Road to the Death House," The New York Times, Feb. 7, 2000.

"I don't think there's anyone who would seriously argue that a child is better off with one parent than with two. It's difficult enough for children today. Why not give all of them a chance to grow up in a loving family?"

-- Child Study Center research fellow Dr. Scott DiBartolo, "Group Fights to Change Adoption Law," New Haven Register, Feb. 6, 2000.

"[Reviving the economy in Willimantic, Connecticut] is a lot harder than adding on to where Hartford and even New Haven are. People want access to labor markets that are generally hard to find in the rural areas."

-- Urban development professor Douglas Rae, "Weaving a Future From Old Threads," The New York Times, Feb. 7, 2000.

"No country is perfect. I prefer to live here. But I don't know if that makes much sense to a child whose main country is really his parents."

-- Former Child Study Center director Dr. Albert J. Solnit, about the controversy over Cuban child Elian Gonzalez, "Forget the Kid: The Real Custody Fight Is Over an Island," The New York Times, Feb. 6, 2000.

"My guess is 10 percent to 25 percent of the population is insulin-resistant."

-- School of Medicine professor Dr. Robert Sherwin, "Syndrome X Solution: Exercise, Diet," AP Online, Feb. 6, 2000.

"There's a strong motor in every human child to develop and to grow...and every kid should be getting better with time and education. But if they have five years of life in a poor child-care setting, that is enough to compromise [their] development."

-- Child development expert Dr. Edward Zigler, "Study Lauds Early School," New Haven Register, Feb. 2, 2000.

"An overweight woman is so at odds with what's acceptable in this society, but our culture values muscular, powerful-looking males. It's the frail man who's at odds with society's ideal."

-- Psychologist Kelly Brownell, "Weighing the Burden of Deadly Depression," USA Today, Feb. 1, 2000.

"The sciences are so interconnected today that it's hard to think about one department without considering the others."

-- Yale President Richard C. Levin, "Yale's Biggest Science Project," Business Week,
Feb. 7, 2000.

"Even if you don't have an 'estate', you can't help but think that 'a death tax' will hit you."

-- Leading Tax expert Michael Graetz, "Republicans Discover Appeal of Killing 'Death Tax'," The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 2, 2000.

"People are looking for a more compelling source of meaning, and many are finding it in the ringing affirmations they hear in Evangelical pulpits. They feel that a lot of churches have watered-down religion to where it's either not very interesting nor satisfactory."

-- Divinity School Dean Richard J. Wood, "Spreading the Word in New England," The Boston Herald, Jan. 30, 2000.

"'[B]ad hair' negatively influences self-esteem, brings out social insecurities, and causes people to concentrate on the negative aspects of themselves."

-- Psychologist Marianne LaFrance, "Perspectives," Newsweek, Feb. 7, 2000.

"While there are plenty of biographies of 19th-century capitalists such as J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller still coming out, who these days writes about Rutherford B. Hayes or Grover Cleveland? The presidents presiding over our peaceful, placid times are likely to get as short shrift as did those who oversaw the Gilded Age."

-- Historian Paul Kennedy, "Clinton's Fate," The Washington Times, Jan. 28, 2000.

"The art of medicine is in phrasing. A good prognosis is always better, within the limits of what one can tell a patient without lying."

-- School of Medicine professor Dr. Howard Spiro, "The Truth Can Comfort the Dying, a Physician Argues," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 28, 2000.

"For many cultures, globalization is the West over the rest, or in-your-face America. The reaction can take extreme forms. Thus the human rights norms that are a prerequisite of globalization have to be promoted with cultural sensitivity."

-- Senior fellow in international security studies Charles Norchi, in his article "The Point Now Is Dignity," International Herald Tribune, Jan. 28, 2000.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Yale's global health program inspires doctors to continue serving the needy

Show marks retirement of noted curator

Sterling Library show celebrates 'Blacks in the Arts'

'Dino-snore!' will bring public to Peabody for the ultimate sleepover

Clinic aims to bring relief to compulsive gamblers

Yale 'bakers' show off their talents at benefit event

Yale-donated microscope inspires 'next generation of scientists'

University lends support to help New Haven become a 'city of readers'

Attorney for Abner Louima to speak at 'Rebellious Lawyering' event

Study finds similarities in U.S. and Nazi eugenics efforts

Retrospective exhibit showcases the work of the once 'most talked about artist' in Britain

Black History Month celebration

Pioneering alumna to discuss use of math in real world

Research on extremophiles may lead to better antibiotics

Symposium explores artists' special bond

Gifts make Peabody's collections more accessible

Yale Scoreboard

Campus Notes

Standing, Special and Appointments Committees

In the News

Former European Commission official to present talks