-- Professor of psychiatry Dr. John H. Krystal, "Pressure to Contain Costs Leads to Better Drugs for Mentally Ill," Connecticut Post, April 1, 2001.
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"It's palatial. With this renovation, we're willing to see monumental architecture and feel comfortable in it."
-- Curator of American decorative arts Patricia Kane, "Yale Reopens Galleries After Major Overhaul," New Haven Register, March 25, 2001.
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"Unfortunately, that is the direction the Supreme Court has been going. Without having read previous decisions on this issue, the billboard company would seem to have a very plausible case. But that doesn't mean they are going to win, particularly if the towns modify their laws to meet the constitutional standard they may be falling short of now."
-- Knight Professor of Constitutional Law & the First Amendment Jack Balkin about billboard companies' using the First Amendment to defend superseding local zoning laws, "Coming To a Town Near You? Company Wants Big Billboards For Local Roads, and State May Not Be Able to Say No," The New York Times, March 25, 2001.
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"The majority of [sports] injuries are preventable. By following preventative steps, such as warming up, wearing bike helmets and kneepads, and by increasing the rate of activity by only 10 percent per week, baby boomers will have fewer injuries."
-- Clinical instructor of orthopedics Dr. Robert Stanton, "Cutting Down on Boomer Sports Injuries," Scripps Howard News Service," March 28, 2001.
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"If [the chickenpox vaccine's] use is fairly widespread, the potential is there to eradicate the disease."
-- Post-doctoral fellow in infectious diseases Marietta Vazquez, "Chicken Pox," AP Worldstream, March 28, 2001.
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"Of late I have realized that writers of so-called popular fiction are seldom honored by having their birthplace, study or some other allegedly appropriate place preserved."
-- Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History Robin W. Winks in his book review "Few Nations Enshrine the Objects of This Affection," Boston Globe, March 25, 2001.
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"[A]bilities are not something you're born with, that are etched in invisible ink on your forehead and cannot be changed."
-- IBM Professor of Psychology and Education Robert J. Sternberg, "His Goal: Making Intelligence Tests Smarter," The New York Times, April 3, 2001.
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"The University is determined to ensure all our students not only are, but believe they are, a valued part of our community."
-- President Richard C. Levin, "Yale, Gay Activist Kramer Reach Agreement on Donation," The Associated Press, April 2, 2001.
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"There was no description of Jesus in the New Testament, and art is not a concern for the early church, because they expect Jesus to return rather quickly."
-- Assistant professor of Christian art & architecture Jaime Lara, "Is This the Face of Jesus? New Image Takes Scholars' Knowledge of 1st-Century Middle East Into Account," The Hartford Courant, March 28, 2001.
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"We do not believe that the substances found in the subsurface soil at Hamden Middle School pose a past, present or future health risk to students or staff at the school."
-- Postdoctoral fellow in occupational medicine Dr. Konrad Kotrady, "Study Shows No Urgent Health Risks at Hamden Middle School," Associated Press, April 3, 2001.
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"I'm thinking about creating a kind of 'smoking section' [in my classroom]. I might allow [Internet] 'surfing' in the last row."
-- William K. Townsend Professor of Law Ian Ayres, "Laptop Surfing Ban Irks Yalies; Law School Prof Provokes Debate on Use in Class," New Haven Register, April 2, 2001.
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"Within the long, long tradition of centralized rule [in China], the ideas of thought reform and rectification and confession and contrition form a surprisingly large part of the intellectual approach to rulership."
-- Sterling Professor of History Jonathan D. Spence, "When Treason Was Tolerable And Gossip Death," The New York Times, March 31, 2001.
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"A lot of people are not aware of [scoliosis] and are not sure about treatment. There are many bogus ones out there."
-- Professor of orthopedics Dr. Thomas S. Renshaw, "Scoliosis Most Common in Girls, Can Turn Serious If Diagnosed Too Late," New Haven Register, April 5, 2001.
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"It was grueling -- but a tremendous learning experience. We were elated to have won it all."
-- Yale SOM student Andrea Goldman about the national venture capital competition she and four other SOM students won, "Yale MBA Team Takes First Prize in Contest," New Haven Register, April 5, 2001.
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"[Unless incentives are given to pharmaceutical companies to provide AIDS drugs at no cost in the Third World,] AIDS will lay waste to the world, creating conditions comparable to the devastation of the bubonic plague in medieval Europe or the worldwide flu epidemic at the start of the 20th century. It is leveling Africa. It threatens Asia and Latin America."
-- Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. David A. Kessler in his article "Bush Has Rare Chance To Do Incredible Good Worldwide," USA Today, April 5, 2001.
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"Spying itself is not illegal. China may not like it. But you can use the high seas for any purpose you wish. Territorial seas are different. That is not considered a so-called innocent passage. But on the high seas, ships can do whatever they want."
-- Professor of law Ruth Wedgwood about the American spy plane that collided with a Chinese fighter jet and was impounded by Chinese authorities, "Bush is Demanding a 'Prompt' Return of Plane and Crew," The New York Times, April 3, 2001.
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"There are some hoaxes that cause direct harm, but even the ones that are more benign still teach us bad habits of thought and logic. They set us up for bigger hoaxes down the line."
-- Assistant professor of neurology Steven Novella, "Today's Technology Makes It Even Easier to Bring a Hoax to Life," New Haven Register, April 1, 2001.
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"[V]ouchers will not go to the heart of the education challenge -- creating a nationwide system of education that makes it possible for all children to obtain an education good enough to participate in the economy and become responsible citizens."
-- Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry Dr. James P. Comer in his article "Vouchers Are No Cure for Poor Performance," The Hartford Courant, April 3, 2001.
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"Hardly a day seems to go by without national news coverage of yet another shooting. Yet when was the last time you heard a story on the national evening news about a citizen saving a life with a gun?"
-- Research affiliate at the Law School John R. Lott Jr. in his article " Where Is The Coverage of Gun-Carrying Heroes?" The Hartford Courant, April 3, 2001.
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Communiversity Day: A Photo Essay
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