"Economists and Christian theologians agree that if one takes pleasure in an act of generosity, it is somehow less generous. They just disagree on the moral implications."
-- Assistant professor of anthropology David Graeber in his essay "Give It Away," InTheseTimes.com, Aug. 2000.
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"These days, in England, one risks rebuke if one refers to a person, book, or landscape as 'very English,' since the English seem quite confused about who they are."
-- Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History Robin W. Winks in his article "Touring the Landscape of Agatha, and Relishing the Read," The Boston Sunday Globe, Aug. 27, 2000.
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"Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past."
-- Assistant professor of English William Deresiewicz in his review of Thom Gunn's 'Boss Cupid,' "Among the Bad Boys," The New York Times Book Review, Aug. 6, 2000.
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"It seemed like in the state of Connecticut we have a higher than expected rate [of psychiatric emergency room visits by children], but now we know also that it's a national problem."
-- Assistant professor of pediatrics Dr. Karen Santucci, "ERs Take on Mentally Ill Kids," New Haven Register, Aug. 6, 2000.
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"I enjoy the stimulation of being in an academic setting where there are so many opportunities for scientists working in different disciplines to have a cross pollination of ideas. Without that, I'd be bored."
-- Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering Mark Reed, "Working on a Very Small Big Thing," New Haven Register, Aug. 6, 2000.
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"The most intelligent people I know have a great deal of difficulty [coping with diabetes]."
-- C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine Dr. Robert Sherwin, "Living With Diabetes is Getting Easier -- And a Cure Could Be on the Way," U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 7, 2000.
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"We're not finding things as fast as we're using them. The challenge will be to find things faster."
-- Eugene Higgins Professor of Geology Brian J. Skinner, "Scientist Calls for New Technology to Discover Mineral Resources," AP Worldstream, Aug. 7, 2000.
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"Indeed, some people question whether there should be any rules against insider trading at all. Is such trading really unfair? Fairness is a slippery concept."
-- Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics Robert J. Shiller, "Outlaw Selective Disclosure?" The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 10, 2000.
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"Students are the best ambassadors."
-- Secretary, South Asian Studies Committee, YCIAS, Pravin Bhatt, "College Confidential," Village Voice, Aug. 8, 2000.
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"In the mathematical community, the common and rapid response to these breakthroughs [by mathematician Thomas H. Wolff] was that they were seen not just as watershed events, but as lighting strikes that permanently altered the landscape."
-- Chair of the Department of Mathematics Peter W. Jones, "Thomas H. Wolff, Expert in Math Analysis, Dies at 46," The New York Times, Aug. 10, 2000.
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"The typical person we used to see [come in for tattoo removal] was a male who was getting remarried or broke up with a girlfriend and wanted to remove 'Julia's' name. Five years ago, women in their late 20s or early 30s started coming in prior to a wedding or we saw women who want to wear shorts."
-- Professor of dermatology & surgery Dr. David Leffell, "Disappearing Ink; Laser Technology Can Remove Unwanted Tattoos," Connecticut Post, Aug. 21, 2000.
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"This is how populations of amphibians stay healthy. They need to have these extreme years. These are boom-bust species."
-- Assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology David Skelly, "It's a Frog Flood: Being Green Gets Easier With Rain," The Hartford Courant, Aug. 26, 2000.
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"People always ask me about [Benjamin Franklin's] 'affairs.' I hate that question! How do I know if he went to bed with certain women? I wasn't there."
-- Special consultant, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Claude-Anne Lopez, "An Affair of the Mind," New Haven Register, Aug. 27, 2000.
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"[Children] who literally are dying, God knows, I've seen them pull themselves together just to make another summer of camp."
-- Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Howard Pearson, "Newman's Own," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 27, 2000.
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"Although most Russians want [President Vladimir Putin] to reduce crime and cut corruption, soldiers' mothers, fathers and wives do not share his affection for the military and secret police. The tragedy of the Kursk and Mr. Putin's brazen reaction to it are bound to reinforce their dislike of the military and may also hurt his highly favorable public opinion ratings."
-- Adjunct professor of political science William E. Odom in his op-ed essay, The New York Times, Aug. 20, 2000.
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"There is absolutely nothing in this world that you can't become simply through the acquisition of knowledge."
-- Yale trustee Dr. Benjamin Carson, "Dr. Ben Carson, a Remarkable Surgeon and Success Story from a Difficult Childhood," ABC World News This Morning, Sept. 8, 2000.
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"Pregnancy-induced hypertension is an important clinical problem, but nobody has had a really good handle on the biochemical pathways involved in any form of the disorder. This finding [that a protein responsible for regulating the body's balance of salt can trigger hypertension if it mutates or changes] has opened the door a crack, giving us a first glimpse of a mechanism underlying hypertension in pregnancy."
-- Chair of the department of genetics Dr. Richard P. Lifton, "Clue to Pregnancy Hypertension," Onhealth.com, July 10, 2000.
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"All these [professional wrestlers] are people who represent absolutes. It provides a very absolute backdrop to either compare yourself to, or emulate."
-- Assistant professor of psychiatry Dr. Andres Martin, "Wrestling's Hold on Kids Worrisome," New Haven Register, Aug. 28, 2000.
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"With feminism as a political, social, and economic movement I have no quarrel whatsoever. With what calls itself feminist literary criticism, which I believe is like the Holy Roman Empire -- not Holy, not Roman, not an Empire. It's not feminist, it's not literary, it's not criticism."
-- Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom, "The Thursday Interview," The Independent (London), Aug. 31, 2000.
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"Indeed, to pressure students not to pray is to pressure them to be less than the full selves their faith calls them to be. If the price of attendance at public schools is to do less than the Lord requires, then it is, ironically, the state that is suddenly violating the separation of church and state."
-- William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Stephen L. Carter in his op-ed essay "The Right to Pray Whenever God Calls," The New York Times, Sept. 3, 2000.
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"It's still amazing to me how [the Yale Bowl's] design holds up. They knew what they were doing when they designed it. I never saw standing water on that field."
-- Special assistant to the director of athletics Carmen Cozza, "The Yale Bowl: The Place Is Often the Draw," The New York Times, Sept. 3, 2000.
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"The current transplant technique has an Achilles heel."
-- Professor of surgery Dr. John A. Elefteriades about the fact that one in 10 of heart transplant patients die, "Patch Job; Yale Surgeon's Unorthodox Heart Transplant Technique Could Save Lives," New Haven Register, Aug. 31, 2000.
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"[A] political party that comes to share power as a result of discontent with the political system -- however legitimate and understandable -- does not and should not automatically gain international legitimacy."
-- Associate director, International Security Studies, Ted R. Bromund in his letter to the editor, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," Foreign Affairs, Sept. 2000.
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"When Linotypes came in (during the late 1800s), printers were able to get hold of the machines. But with the coming of computer-controlled printing, it wiped them out."
-- Farnam Professor Emeritus of History David Montgomery, "Jurassic Jobs," New Haven Register, Sept. 3, 2000.
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"Their instructions very clearly are, if you want your church to grow, you won't use organ music, because it's not a mode of musical expression that the lion's share of Americans are familiar with, or like, or relate to."
-- Associate professor, adjunct, of organ Jean Martin, "Maine's Organs Falling Silent; Churches Struggle to Find Musicians Who Have Mastered the Complex Instrument," Portland Press Herald, Aug. 19, 2000.
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"AA and MM were never intended to treat the same group of people."
-- Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry George Davis, about the different philosophies of Alcoholics Anonymous and Moderation Management, "Abstinence vs. Moderation: Debate Rages on Whether Alcohol Abuse is a Disease or Treatable Behavior," The Gazette (Montreal), Aug. 22, 2000.
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"For someone to be so committed to an idea that they would be willing to suffer these abhorrent conditions to advance the hypothesis, that's remarkable. It was quite heroic to live there at the time and to experiment under those conditions."
-- Assistant professor of the history of medicine Susan Lederer about a 19th-century researcher who deliberately exposed himself to yellow fever in search of a cure, "Mosquito Bite 100 Years Ago Helped Solve Yellow Fever Mystery," The Associated Press and elsewhere, Sept. 7, 2000.
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